Question: Did E. E. Cummings and Umberto Eco ever work in the same profession?

Context articles: Faith in Fakes
Kant and the Platypus
Richard Dixon (translator)
Belief or Nonbelief?
Opera Soft
Serendipities
Propinquity (novel)
The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco
E. E. Cummings

"Il costume di casa" ("Faith in Fakes") was originally an essay written by the Italian semiotician Umberto Eco, about "America's obsession with simulacra and counterfeit reality."
 It was later incorporated as the centrepiece of the anthology bearing the same name, a collection of articles and essays about Italian ideologies.
 The anthology contains a selection of essays taken from two Italian books by Eco: "Il costume di casa" (first published in 1973) and "Sette anni di desiderio" (1983).
 It was translated into English in 1986 as "Faith in Fakes" and later updated as "Travels in Hyperreality" in 1995.
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition (ISBN  ) is a book by Umberto Eco which was published in Italian as "Kant e l'ornitorinco" in 1997.
 An English edition, translated by Alastair McEwen, appeared in 1999.
Richard Dixon (born 1956) is an English translator of Italian literature.
 He translated the last works of Umberto Eco, including his novels "The Prague Cemetery", shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012, and "Numero Zero", commended by the judges of the John Florio Prize, 2016.
 He has also translated works by Giacomo Leopardi, Roberto Calasso and Antonio Moresco.
Belief or Nonbelief?
 (originally published in Italian as In cosa crede chi non crede?)
 is a 1996 non-fiction book by Umberto Eco and Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini.
 The book was first published on January 12, 2000 through Arcade Publishing and consists of a dialogue between Eco and Martini about the subject of religion.
Opera Soft was one of the most prolific Spanish computer game developers of the Golden Era of Spanish Software of the 1980s.
 It released many games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and similar computers in the mid-1980s, but its games were not as popular on the PC.
 Founded in 1986, the company obtained success with its title "Livingstone, supongo" ("Livingstone, I Presume"), based on the famous 19th-century explorer Dr. Livingstone.
 Nevertheless, their most important title is probably "La Abadía del Crimen" ("The Abbey of Crime"), based on Umberto Eco's best-seller "The Name of the Rose".
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (originally published in English, translated by William Weaver) is a 1998 collection of essays by Umberto Eco.
 Dealing with the history of linguistics and Early Modern concepts of a perfect language, the material in the book overlaps with "La ricerca della lingua perfetta".
 As Eco explains it in his preface, serendipity is the positive outcome of some ill-conceived idea.
Propinquity is a 1986 novel by Australian author/journalist John Macgregor.
 The manuscript won the Adelaide Festival Biennial Award for Literature; the novel was short-listed for "The Age" Book of the Year.
 Its author was compared by critics with PG Wodehouse, Don DeLillo, Julian Barnes, Umberto Eco, and Australian Nobellist Patrick White.
 Despite its critical success, the collapse of the original publisher meant that "Propinquity" did not reach a wide audience, although in 2013 it was released on Amazon as a Kindle e-book and a CreateSpace print-on-demand paperback.
The Prague Cemetery (Italian: "Il cimitero di Praga" ) is the sixth novel by Italian author Umberto Eco.
 It was first published in October 2010; the English translation by Richard Dixon appeared a year later.
 Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012, it has been described as Eco's best novel since "The Name of the Rose".
Umberto Eco {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'OMRI', '4': "} (] ; 5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor.
 He is best known internationally for his 1980 novel "Il nome della rosa" ("The Name of the Rose"), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory.
 He later wrote other novels, including "Il pendolo di Foucault" ("Foucault's Pendulum") and "L'isola del giorno prima" ("The Island of the Day Before").
 His novel "Il cimitero di Praga" ("The Prague Cemetery"), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy.
Edward Estlin "E. E." Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as e e cummings, as he sometimes signed his name, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.
 He wrote approximately 2,900 poems; two autobiographical novels; four plays and several essays.
 He is remembered as an eminent voice of 20th century English-language literature.