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Umberto Eco was born in Alessandria in 1932. Philosopher, semiotician, medievalist and specialist on the mass media, Eco made his narrative debut in 1980 with "The Name of the Rose" (Premio Strega 1981), which was followed by "Foucault’s Pendulum" (1988), "The Island of the Day Before" (1994), "Baudolino" (2000), "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" (2004) and "The Prague Cemetery" (2010).

His numerous non-fiction works (both academic and otherwise) include "A Theory of Semiotics" (1975), "The Limits of Interpretation" (1990), "Kant and the Platypus" (1997), "Dall’albero al labirinto" (2007), "Non sperate di liberarvi dei libri" (2009, with Jean-Claude Carrière). In 2004 Eco edited an illustrated volume entitled "On Beauty", which was followed in 2007 by "On Ugliness" and in 2009 by "The Infinity of Lists".

Edited issues:

Versus n. 38-39

Semiotica medievale

edited by Umberto Eco

Versus n. 44-45

Meaning and Mental Representations

edited by Umberto Eco, Marco Santambrogio, Patrizia Violi

Published articles:

A semiotic approach to semantics

in Versus n. 1, Miscellanea, pp. 21-60

Introduction to a Semiotics of Iconic Signs

in Versus n. 2, Miscellanea, pp. 1-15

Is the Present King of France a Bachelor?

in Versus n. 7, Miscellanea, pp. 1-53

Codice

in Versus n. 14, Miscellanea, pp. 1-38

Peirce and contemporary semantics

in Versus n. 15, Miscellanea, pp. 49-72

Possible Worlds and Text Pragmatics: Un drame bien parisien

in Versus n. 19-20, Semiotica testuale: mondi possibili e narratività, pp. 3-72

Il cane e il cavallo: un testo visivo e alcuni equivoci verbali

in Versus n. 25, Semiotiche visive, pp. 28-43

Guessing: From Aristotle to Sherlock Holmes

in Versus n. 30, Miscellanea, pp. 3-19

A Portrait of the Elder as a Young Pliny

in Versus n. 35-36, Analisi e interpretazione dei testi letterari, pp. 37-51

On Animal Language in the Medieval Classification of Signs

by Umberto Eco, Roberto Lambertini, Costantino Marmo, Andrea Tabarroni

in Versus n. 38-39, Semiotica medievale, pp. 3-38

On Truth. A Fiction

in Versus n. 44-45, Meaning and Mental Representations, pp. 41-59

Fakes and Forgeries

in Versus n. 46, Fakes, Identity and the Real Thing, pp. 3-29

Small Worlds

in Versus n. 52-53, Il lettore: modelli, processi ed effetti dell'interpretazione, pp. 53-70

The Quest for a Perfect Language

in Versus n. 61-62-63, Le lingue perfette, pp. 9-45

Experiences in Translation

in Versus n. 82, La traduzione, pp. 87-108

Traduzione e interpretazione

in Versus n. 85-86-87, Sulla traduzione intersemiotica, pp. 55-100

Cinque sensi di semantica

in Versus n. 88-89, La semantica fin de siècle, pp. 21-35

Conclusioni, a margine di un dibattito / Conclusions in the margins of a debate

in Versus n. 121, Rileggere un classico: il Trattato di semiotica generale 40 anni dopo / Rereading a classic: Trattato di semiotica generale 40 years later, pp. 115-121