Italian writer Umberto Eco has died at age 84. His first novel, 1980’s “The Name of the Rose,” was a bestseller. In 2011’s “Confessions of a Young Novelist,” Eco looked back at his career as a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired U.S. rights to Umberto Eco: A Library of the World, a documentary about the bestselling Italian author with perhaps the greatest intellectual appetite of any ...

The celebrated Italian intellectual, Umberto Eco, died five years ago today. During his time, he was the preeminent expert in the field of semiotics, the study and interpretation of signs and symbols, ...

Internationally acclaimed Italian author and philosopher Umberto Eco has died at age 84. His death was confirmed by his American publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Born in a small Italian town in ...

A new documentary delves into the infectious curiosity and passions of the Italian scholar and author of “The Name of the Rose.” By Nicolas Rapold When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Umberto Eco, the acclaimed Italian author and philosopher whose 1980 debut novel "The Name of the Rose" became a worldwide bestseller, died at his Milan home Friday night, his publisher confirmed. He ...

Two decades after the late Italian novelist and intellectual Umberto Eco published a devastatingly specific guide to modern fascism, his definitions seem even more prescient. World News Editor PARIS — ...