Trattato di semiotica generale (1975, engelsk: A Theory of Semiotics, 1976).

Il costume di casa (1973, engelsk: Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality, 1986).

La Struttura Assente (1968, engelsk The Absent Structure).

Le poetiche di Joyce (1965, engelsk: The Middle Ages of James Joyce, The Aesthetics of Chaosmos, 1989).

Apocalittici e integrati (1964, delvis engelsk omsetjing: Apocalypse Postponed, 1994).

Diario Minimo (1963, engelsk: Misreadings, 1993).

«Sviluppo dell'estetica medievale», i Momenti e problemi di storia dell'estetica (1959, engelsk Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, 1985).

Il problema estetico in San Tommaso (1956, engelsk: The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas, 1988, Revised).

Sulla letteratura (2003, norsk Om litteratur, 2004).

Storia della bellezza (2004, redigert med Girolamo de Michele, norsk Skjønnhetens historie, 2004).

Den nye middelalderen og andre essays (2000, frå Dalla periferia dell'impero, Sette anni di desiderio og Sugli specchi e altri saggi).

Dommedag er nær (1994, essay frå Diario minimo og Il secondo diario minimo).

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994, norsk Seks turer i fortellingenes skoger, 1994).

Cinque scritti morali (1997, norsk Fire moralske betraktninger, 2000).

Postille al nome della rosa (1983, Randbemerkninger til Rosens navn, 1989).

Gli gnomi di Gnu (1992, engelsk: The Gnomes of Gnu).

I tre cosmonauti (1966, engelsk: The Three Astronauts).

La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana (2004 Dronning Loanas mystiske flamme, 2005).

Baudolino (2000 norsk Baudolino, 2000).

L'isola del giorno prima (1994 norsk Øya fra dagen før, 1995).Il pendolo di Foucault (1988 norsk Foucaults pendel, 1989).Il nome della rosa (1980 norsk omsetjing Rosens navn, 1984).He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino, president of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities at the University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and an honorary fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.Namnetrekket til Eco på ei tysk utgjeving. His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy.Įco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays, and edited and translated into Italian books from French, such as Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style” (1983). 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). He is widely known 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. Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor.

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