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Portrait image of Umberto Eco Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex

Eco, Umberto

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