Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (1932) is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 historical mystery novel Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose], an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. He has since written further novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault [Foucault's Pendulum], L'isola del giorno prima [The Island of the Day Before] and Il cimitero di Praga [The Prague Cemetery].

Works

Novels

• Il nome della rosa, Milano: Bompiani, 1980; Commented edition, ed. by Costantino Marmo. Milano: Edizioni Scolastiche Fabbri, 1990.
  • Le nom de la rose, Paris: Grasset, 1982.
  • Der Name der Rose, Munchen: Hanser, 1982.
  • El nombre de la rosa, Barcelona: Lumen, 1982.
  • The Name of the Rose, New York: Harcourt, 1983; London: Secker & Warburg, 1983; Vintage Classics, 2004.
• Il pendolo di Foucault, Milano: Gruppo Editoriale Fabri Bompiani, 1988.
  • Foucault's Pendulum, New York: Harcourt, 1989; London: Secker and Warburg, 1989 (in English).
  • Foucault's Pendulum. The Signed First Edition Society, The Franklin Library, 1989 (in English).
  • Das Foucaultsche Pendel, trans. Burkhart Kroeber, München: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1989 (in German).
  • Le pendule de Foucault, Paris: Grasset, 1990; Livre de Poche 1992 (in French).
  • Pendulul lui Foucault, Constanta: Editura Pontica, 1991 (in Romanian).
  • A Foucault-Jnga, trans. Barna Imre, Budapest: EURÓPA KÖNYVKIADÓ, 1992 (in Hunagarian).
• L'isola del giorno prima, Milan: Bompiani, 1994.
  • Insula din ziua de ieri, Constanta: Editura Pontica, 1995. (in Romanian)
  • Jazirat al-yawm al-sabiq, Tarabulus: Dar Uya, (Libya; Tripoli), 2000. (in Arabic)
• Baudolino, Milano: Bompiani, 2000 (novel).
  • Baudolino, trans. Burkhart Kroeber, München: Carl Hanser Verlag, 2001 (in German).
  • Baudolino, Bucuresti: Pontica, 2001 (in Romanian).
  • Baudulinu, Arabic Cultural Center Morocco and North Africa, 2003 (in Arab).
• La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana, Milano: Bompiani, 2004; paperback edition, 2006.
  • Misterioasa flacără a reginei Loana, Bucarest: Polirom/Pontica, 2004 (in Romanian).
  • The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, NewYork: Harcourt; London: Secker 2005; London: Vintage, 2006 (in English).

Academics writings

• Il problema estetico in San Tommaso, Torino: Edizioni di Filosofia, 1956; 2nd ed., Milan: Bompiani, 197O.
  • The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. (In English)
  • Le problème esthétique chez Thomas d'Aquin, Paris: PUF, 1993. (in French)

• "Sviluppo dell'estetica medievale", in Momenti e problemi di storia dell'estetica, Milan: Marzorati, 1959; 2nd rev. ed. as Arte e bellezza nell'estetica medievale, Milan: Bompiani, 1987.
  • Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. (in English)
  • Menas ir grožis viduramžių estetikoje, trans. Jonas Vilimas, Vilnius: Baltos Lakos, 1997. (in Lithuanian)
  • Arte y belleza en la estetica medieval, trans. Helena Lozano Miralles, Barcelona: Lumen, 1997; 2nd ed., 1999. (in Spanish)
  • Arta si frumosul in estetica medievala, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1999. (in Romanian)

• Opera aperta, Milan: Bompiani, 1962; 2nd ed., rev., 1967; 3rd ed., 1971; 4th ed., rev., 1976; 1997.
  • Obra aberta: forma e indeterminação nas poéticas contemporâneas, trans. Giovanni Cutolo, Sao Paulo: Perspectiva, 1971; 8th ed., 1991. (in Portuguese)
  • The Open Work, trans. Anna Cancogni, Harvard University Press, 1989. (in English)

• Diario minimo, Milan: Mondadori, 1963.
  • Jurnal sumar, trans. Corina Anton, Bucuresti: Humanitas, 2004. (in Romanian)

• Apocalittici e integrati, Milan: Casa Ed. Valentino Bompiani, 1964; rev. ed., Milan: Bompiani, 1977.
  • Apocalittici e integrati, trans. Andrés Boglar, Editorial Lumen, 1968; 2nd ed., 1970; 7th ed., 1984. (in Spanish)
• Le poetiche di Joyce, Milan: Bompiani, 1965.
• Appunti per una semiologia delle comunicazioni visive, Milan: Bompiani, 1967.
• La struttura assente, Milan: Bompiani, 1968; rev. ed., 1983.
• La definizione dell'arte, Milan: Mursia, 1968.
• Il segno, Milan: Isedi, 1971; 2d ed., Milan: Mondadori.
• Il costume di casa, Milan: Fabbri-Bompiani, 1973; 1977; 1983.
  • Uber Gott und die Welt. Essays und Glossen, trans. Burkhart Kroeber, Munich: Carl Hanser, 1985. (in German)
• Trattato di semiotica generale, Milan: Bompiani, 1975.
  • Tratado de semiotica general, trans. Carlos Manzano, Barcelona: Lumen, I977. (in Spanish)
• A Theory of Semiotics, Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1976; Macmillan, 1977.
• Come si fa una tesi di laurea, Milan: Bompiani, 1977, 2001.
  • Como se hace una tesis, Barcelona: Gedisa Editorial, 1983 (in Spanish).
  • Como se faz uma tese em ciencias humanas, trans. Falcão Basto and Luís Leitão, Lisboa: Presença, 1980; São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1983; 1997. (in Portuguese)
  • Cum se face o tezã de licentã, trans. George Popescu, Bucharest: Pontica, 2000. (in Romanian)
• The Role of the Reader (essays), Bloomington, 1979; Indiana U.P. and London: Hutchinson, 1981.
• Lector in fabula, Milano: Casa Editrice Valentino Bompiani, 1979.
  • Lector in fabula. La cooperacion interpretativa en el texto narrativo, trans. Ricardo Pochtar, Barcelona: Lumen, 1981; 3rd edition, 1993 (in Spanish).
• De Bibliotheca, Biblioteca Civica di Milano, non commercial edition, 1981; Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri-Bompiani, Sonzogno, Etas S.p.A., Milano, 1983.
  • Die Bibliothek, trans. Burkhart Kroeber, München: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1987 (in German).
• with Thomas A. Sebeok (eds), The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce, Indiana University Press 1983.
• Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio, Torino: Einaudi, 1984.
  • Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984; Midland Book Edition, 1986.
• Im Labyrinth der Vernunft. Texte über Kunst und Zeichen (Selected essays). Leipzig: Reclam, 1989. (in German)
• I limiti dell'interpretazione, Milano: Bompiani, 1990.
  • Els limits de la interpretació, Barcelona: Destino, 1991 (in Portughese).
  • The limits of interpretation, Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1990 (in English).
  • Les limites de l'interpretation, Paris: Grasset, 1992 (in French).
  • Die Grenzen der Interpretation, München: Hanser, 1992 (in German).
  • Los limites de la interpretacion, trans. Helena Lozano, Barcelona: Lumen, 1992 (in Spanish).
  • Os limites da interpretaçao, Lisboa: Difel, 1992 (in Portuguese).
  • Ta oria tes ermeneias, Athena: Ekdoseis Gnose, 1992 (in Greek).
  • Limitele interpretării, trans. Ştefania Mincu and Daniela Bucşă, Costanţa: Editura Pontica, 1996 (in Romanian).
• Il secondo diario minimo, Milano: Bompiani, 1992.
  • How to travel with a salmon & other essays, trans. William Weaver, New York: Hacourt Brace and London: Secker, 1994 (in English).
  • Comment voyager avec un saumon. Nouveaux pastiches et postiches, trans. Myriem Bouzaher, Paris: Grasset & Fasquelle, 1997. (in French)
• Cinque scritti morali, Milan: Bompiani, 1997.
  • Vier moralische Schriften, trans. Burkhart Kroeber, Munich: Carl Hanser, 1998. (in German)
  • Cinci scrieri morale, trans. Geo Vasile, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2005. (in Romanian)
• Serendipities. Language and Lunacy, trans. William Weaver, New York: Columbia University Press, 1998; London: Weidenfeld, 1999.

Bibliography

• On Eco's website

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco