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** [[Media:Eco_Umberto_Semiotics_and_the_Philosophy_of_Language_1986.pdf|''Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language'']], Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1984, Midland Book Edition, 1986.
 
** [[Media:Eco_Umberto_Semiotics_and_the_Philosophy_of_Language_1986.pdf|''Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language'']], Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1984, Midland Book Edition, 1986.
 
* [[Media:Eco_Umberto_Im_Labyrinth_der_Vernunft_Texte_uber_Kunst_und_Zeichen_1989.pdf|''Im Labyrinth der Vernunft. Texte über Kunst und Zeichen'']] (Selected essays). Leipzig: Reclam, 1989 (in German).
 
* [[Media:Eco_Umberto_Im_Labyrinth_der_Vernunft_Texte_uber_Kunst_und_Zeichen_1989.pdf|''Im Labyrinth der Vernunft. Texte über Kunst und Zeichen'']] (Selected essays). Leipzig: Reclam, 1989 (in German).
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* ''L'isola del giorno prima'', Milano: Bompiani, 1994.
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** ''Insula din ziua de ieri'', Constanta: Editura Pontica, 1995 (in Romanian).
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** [[Media:Eco_Umberto_Jazirat_al_yawm_al_sabiq_2000.pdf|''Jazirat al-yawm al-sabiq'']], Tarabulus: Dar Uya, (Libya; Tripoli), 2000 (in Arab).
 
* [[Media:Eco_Umberto_Serendipities_Language_and_Lunacy_1998.pdf|''Serendipities. Language and Lunacy'']], trans. William Weaver, New York: Columbia U.P., 1998; London: Weidenfeld, 1999.
 
* [[Media:Eco_Umberto_Serendipities_Language_and_Lunacy_1998.pdf|''Serendipities. Language and Lunacy'']], trans. William Weaver, New York: Columbia U.P., 1998; London: Weidenfeld, 1999.
  

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Umberto Eco,(born 5 January 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) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His most recent novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, was a best-seller.

Literature

Books

  • Il problema estetico in San Tommaso, Torino: Edizioni di Filosofia, 1956; 2nd edittion, Milano: Bompiani, 197O.
    • The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas, Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 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, Milano: Marzorati, 1959; 2d revised ed.: Arte e bellezza nell'estetica medievale, Milano: Bompiani, 1987.
    • Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages,London-New Haven: Yale U.P., 1985 (in English).
    • Menas ir grožis viduramžių estetikoje, trans. Jonas Vilimas, Vilnius: Baltos Lakos, 1997 (in Lithuanian).
    • Arta si frumosul in estetica medievala, Bucuresti: Meridiane, 1999 (in Romanian).
  • Opera aperta, Milano: Bompiani, 1962; 2nd revised edition 1967; 3rd edition, 1971; 4th revised edition 1976.
    • The Open Work, trans. Anna Cancogni, Harvard University Press, 1989 (in English).
  • Diario minimo, Milano: Mondadori, 1963.
    • Jurnal sumar, Bucuresti: Humanitas, 2004 (in Romanian).
  • Apocalittici e integrati, Milano: Bompiani, 1964; revised edition, Milano: Bompiani, 1977.
  • Le poetiche di Joyce, Milano: Bompiani, 1965.
  • Appunti per una semiologia delle comunicazioni visive, Milano: Bompiani, 1967.
  • La struttura assente, Milano: Bompiani, 1968; last revised edition, 1983.
  • La definizione dell'arte, Milano: Mursia, 1968.
  • Il segno, Milano: Isedi, 1971; 2d edition, Milano: Mondadori.
  • Trattato di semiotica generale, Milano: Bompiani, 1975.
  • A Theory of Semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1976; Indiana U.P.and London: Macmillan, 1977 (Original english version).
  • Come si fa una tesi di laurea, Milano: Bompiani, 1977, 2001.
    • Como se hace una tesis, Barcelona: Gedisa, 1983 (in Spanish).
    • Como se faz uma tese, Lisboa: Presença, 1980; São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1983 (in Portughese).
    • Cum se face o tezã de licentã, trans. George Popescu, Bucarest: Pontica, 2000 (in Romanian).
  • The Role of the Reader (essays), Bloomington, 1979; Indiana U.P. and London: Hutchinson, 1981.
  • with Thomas A. Sebeok (eds), The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce, Indiana University Press 1983.
  • Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio, Einaudi: Torino, 1984.
  • Im Labyrinth der Vernunft. Texte über Kunst und Zeichen (Selected essays). Leipzig: Reclam, 1989 (in German).
  • L'isola del giorno prima, Milano: 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 Arab).
  • Serendipities. Language and Lunacy, trans. William Weaver, New York: Columbia U.P., 1998; London: Weidenfeld, 1999.

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