Umberto Eco(1932-2016)
- Writer
- Actor
- Producer
He is a professor of semiotics, the study of communication through
signs and symbols, at the University of Bologna. Also a philiosopher, a
historian, literary critic, and an aesthetician. He is an avid book
collector and owns more than 30,000 volumes. The subjects of his
scholarly investigations range from St. Thomas Aquinas, to James Joyce,
to Superman. He lives in Milan.
