Umberto Eco

**Umberto Eco** (Italiaans: [umˈbɛrto ˈeːko]; 5 Januarie 1932 – 19 Februarie 2016) was 'n Italiaanse skrywer en filosoof. Hy word veral onthou vir sy roman *The Name of the Rose* (*Il nome della rosa*).

## Biografie 
Eco is gebore in Alessandria in die provinsie Piëmont, Italië. Sy vader, Giulio, was 'n rekenmeester. Die familienaam Eco is glo 'n akroniem vir *ex coelis oblatus* ( Latyn vir 'n geskenk uit die hemel). Umberto het aan die universiteit van Turyn studeer, waar hy 'n B.A.-graad in middeleeuse filosofie behaal het in 1954.

In 1959 publiseer Umberto sy tweede boek *Sviluppo dell’estetica medievale* wat hom as 'n wêreldkenner van middeleeuse filosofie en semiotiek gevestig het.

## Romans 
* *Il nome della rosa* (1980 – Engelse vertaling: The Name of the Rose, 1983)
* *Il pendolo di Foucault* (1988 – Engelse vertaling: Foucault's Pendulum, 1989)
* ''L'isola del giorno prima* (1994 – Engelse vertaling: The Island of the Day Before, 1995)
* *Baudolino* (2000 – Engelse vertaling: 2000)
* *La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana'' (2004 – Engelse vertaling: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, 2005)

## Boeke oor filosofie en semiotiek 
* Il problema estetico in San Tommaso (1956 – Engelse vertaling: The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas, 1988)
* "Sviluppo dell'estetica medievale", in Momenti e problemi di storia dell'estetica (1959 - Engelse vertaling:Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, 1985)
* Opera aperta (1962, rev. 1976 - Engelse vertaling: The Open Work (1989)
* Diario Minimo (1963 - Engelse vertaling: Misreadings, 1993)
* Apocalittici e integrati (1964 - Engelse vertaling: Apocalypse Postponed, 1994)
* Le poetiche di Joyce (1965 - Engelse vertaling: The Middle Ages of James Joyce, The Aesthetics of Chaosmos, 1989)
* Il costume di casa (1973 - Engelse vertaling: Travels in Hyperreality, Faith in Fakes, 1986)
* Trattato di semiotica generale (1975 - Engelse vertaling: A Theory of Semiotics, 1976)
* Il Superuomo di massa (1976)
* Dalla periferia dell'impero (1977)
* A semiotic Landscape. Panorama sémiotique. Proceedings of the Ist Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (1979)
* Lector in fabula (1979) Engelse vertaling :The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (1979)
* Sette anni di desiderio (1983)
* Postille al nome della rosa (1983 - Engelse vertaling Postscript to The Name of the Rose, 1984)
* Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio (1984 - Engelse vertaling: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, 1984)
* I limiti dell'interpretazione (1990 - Engelse vertaling :The Limits of Interpretation, 1990)
* La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea (1993 - Engelse vertaling: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe), 1995)
* Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994)
* Incontro - Encounter - Rencontre (1996 - in Italiaans, Engels en Frans)
* In cosa crede chi non crede? (met Carlo Maria Martini), 1996 - Engelse translasie: Belief or Nonbelief?: A Dialogue, 2000)
* Cinque scritti morali (1997 - Engelse vertaling: Five Moral Pieces, 2001)
* Kant e l'ornitorinco (1997 - Engelse vertaling: Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition, 1999)
* Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (1998)
* How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays (1998 - Dele in Engels vertaal vanuit Il secondo diario minimo, 1994)
* Experiences in Translation (2000)
* (Sulla letteratura, 2003) Engelse vertaling: On Literature (2004)
* Mouse or Rat?:(2003)
* Storia della bellezza (2004, co-edited with Girolamo de Michele - Engelse vertaling: History of Beauty/On Beauty, 2004