The author of the novel "The Name of the Rose" died on the 85th year of life

It became known that on the evening of February 19 a popular writer and literary critic Umberto Eco died.

Umberto Eco went to the best world of his Milan house, surrounded by the closest people. It is known that Signor Eco in recent years fought desperately with cancer.

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What do we know about the biography of a talented Italian novelist? He graduated from the University of Turin, choosing as his specialization philosophy and medieval literature. Mr. Eco worked in many Italian universities, teaching aesthetics and culturology. He tried himself and in the journalistic field: collaborated with the publication of L'Espresso and television channels.

Umberto Eco compared the process of creating a novel with the birth of a man.

The wife of the writer was his colleague Renata Ramge, professor of art criticism.