Reporting from New York — Literary giant Umberto Eco left behind a rich legacy of works, including “The Name of the Rose” and “Foucault’s Pendulum.” In 2005, he sat down with the Los Angeles Times to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has acquired U.S. rights to Umberto Eco: A Library of the World, a documentary about the bestselling Italian author with perhaps the greatest intellectual appetite of any ...

The celebrated Italian intellectual, Umberto Eco, died five years ago today. During his time, he was the preeminent expert in the field of semiotics, the study and interpretation of signs and symbols, ...

Visiting the vibrant lively city of Warsaw for a few summer days is sure to result in some exciting stories worth sharing. But what if you ended up there during a year that did not exactly make Poland ...

Not a novel by Umberto, of course. No, the novel soon to be written that would equal the international acclaim of Eco’s medieval thriller, The Name of the Rose (1980), which eventually sold 30 million ...

Umberto Eco's 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism" outlines 14 common features of fascism based on his experience growing up as a boy in ...

Two decades after the late Italian novelist and intellectual Umberto Eco published a devastatingly specific guide to modern fascism, his definitions seem even more prescient. World News Editor PARIS — ...

A new documentary delves into the infectious curiosity and passions of the Italian scholar and author of “The Name of the Rose.” By Nicolas Rapold When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

“One of the most profoundly exciting moments of my life,” Gertrude Stein recalled in a lecture at Columbia University in the mid-1930s, “was when at about 16 I suddenly concluded that I would not make ...

“Ur-Fascism,” wrote the Italian thinker Umberto Eco, derives from individual or social frustration. That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a ...

Internationally acclaimed Italian author and philosopher Umberto Eco has died at age 84. His death was confirmed by his American publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Born in a small Italian town in ...