![]() ![]() However, in 1980, the publication of Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose) in Italy, followed by the 1983 publication of the English translation, shifted Eco from the relative obscurity of a well-published academic to the public limelight as a literary super star with a bestselling novel. Most scholars considered his work to be brilliant. ![]() Beginning in 1999, he served as the President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici at the University of Bologna.įor most of Eco’s early career, he was well known as an academic writer and teacher of semiotics and philosophy. Eco has continued to teach at a variety of worldwide universities, and he served as the chair of the semiotics department at the University of Bologna in Italy for many years. Eco’s familiarity with and attraction to popular culture was manifested early he began writing a monthly column called “Diario minimo” in 1959, and has continued to comment actively on current affairs and culture since that time. In that same year, he began his academic career as a lecturer at the University of Turin. He published his doctoral thesis, Il Problema estetic in Tommaso d’Aquino (The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas) in 1956. He attended the University of Turin, where he studied medieval philosophy and aesthetics. Umberto Eco was born on January 5, 1932, in Alessandria, Italy, to Guilo and Givovanna Eco. For those interested in Eco himself has this short biography on him: ![]()
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