When Umberto Eco was touring for the English edition of “The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana” the Los Angeles Public Library asked me to interview him on stage for its ALOUD reading series in 2005. I ...

Not a novel by Umberto, of course. No, the novel soon to be written that would equal the international acclaim of Eco’s medieval thriller, The Name of the Rose (1980), which eventually sold 30 million ...

Reporting from New York — Literary giant Umberto Eco left behind a rich legacy of works, including “The Name of the Rose” and “Foucault’s Pendulum.” In 2005, he sat down with the Los Angeles Times to ...

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, ...

“One of the most profoundly exciting moments of my life,” Gertrude Stein recalled in a lecture at Columbia University in the mid-1930s, “was when at about 16 I suddenly concluded that I would not make ...

MILAN —Umberto Eco started working a novel that set the world’s imagination on fire “prodded by a seminal idea: I felt like poisoning a monk.” The Italian author and academic who intrigued, puzzled ...

“Ur-Fascism,” wrote the Italian thinker Umberto Eco, derives from individual or social frustration. That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Umberto Eco is an Author with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1996 Speech as a Professor for Literature in Italy. The year with the highest ...

"There is a war going on and we are up to our ears, like when I was little and I lived my days under the threat of bombings that could come at any moment," the acclaimed writer said By Ariston ...

ROME --Italian author Umberto Eco, who intrigued, puzzled and delighted readers worldwide with his best-selling historical novel "The Name of the Rose," has died. Spokeswoman Lori Glazer of Eco's ...

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 ...