Eco, Umberto

Country/Region:: Italy
Born:: January 5, 1932
Dead:: February 19, 2016
Genres:: Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature, Children's literature

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Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary scholar, historian and philosopher born in Alessandria in Piedmont. His surname may refer to the fact that his grandfather was a foundling at a time when children were sometimes registered in church records as "Ex Caelis Oblatus", which can be translated as "offered by the heavens".

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The article written by: Alex editorial staff. Published: April 8, 2002
Last update: August 19, 2020 by Tony Samuelsson

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