Umberto Eco

Person · Open Library

Born

5 January 1932

Died

19 February 2016

Works

507

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Italy

Active from

1932-01-05

Active to

2016-02-19

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,784

Total plays

78,418

Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose and his many essays. Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont. His father, Giulio, was an accountant before the government called upon him to serve in three wars. During World War II, Umberto and his mother, Giovanna, moved to a small village in the Piedmontese mountainside. His family name is an acronym of ex coelis oblatus (lat: a gift from the heavens) <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Umberto+Eco">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. 2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization

   · 2018 · cited 5,565x

2. Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

   · 2024 · cited 4,506x

3. Twenty-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Study Comparing Breast-Conserving Surgery with Radical Mastectomy for Early Breast Cancer

   · 2002 · cited 3,584x

4. Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

   · 2010 · cited 3,176x

5. Smart Cities: Definitions, Dimensions, Performance, and Initiatives

   · 2015 · cited 2,710x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan

1932–2016

Nationality

IT, ITA, EE

Role / Field

Semioticians, Semiotician, Philosopher, Novelists, Filosofos, Semiotics

Language

ita, fre, eng

Gender

Male

Recorded by 48 libraries

Quotes

• “Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.”
• “A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.”
• “I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.”
• “In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.”
• “The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed. He doesn't boast of his own death or of others'. But he does not repent. He suffers and keeps his mouth shut; if anything, others then exploit him, making him a myth, while he, the man worthy of esteem, was only a poor creature who reacted with dignity and courage in an event bigger than he was.”
• “The language of Europe is translation.”

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