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, ...

ROME (AP) — Italian author Umberto Eco, best known for the international best-seller "The Name of the Rose," has died. Spokeswoman Lori Glazer of Eco's American publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ...

Fans of The Name of The Rose author Umberto Eco turned out in NYC, boosting the documentary on medieval scholar turned novelist and social commentator to over $9.1k on one screen – a nice showing by ...

When news reached the French republic that Victor Hugo had died on May 22, 1885, many thousands of its citizens began milling about the streets of Paris in hopes of catching a glimpse of the casket as ...

Confession: I'm a bookaholic. And I've been one all my life. Once, as a toddler, I was taken to visit my parents' friends Martha and Eugenio, and the only thing I remember is being fascinated by the ...

Is the self that is conscious of being alive in the present meaningfully continuous with any version of the self in the past? That question has vexed many writers since the dawn of modernity, and ...

The author of The Name of the Rose and Ur-Fascism was apparently a huge influence on the production of this medieval themed narrative game. Pentiment was an unexpected game, so it’s only natural that ...

It may be a coincidence that a new television adaptation of Umberto Eco’s 1980 medieval ecclesiastic detective novel “The Name of the Rose” begins the same week that HBO’s “Game of Thrones” finished ...

John Turturro hadn’t read Umberto Eco’s thriller “The Name of the Rose” or seen the 1986 movie when he was approached in spring of last year about a new TV adaptation. After reading the novel, one of ...