Umberto Eco library opens in Bologna, 10 years after his death
“Eco, born in Alessandria in 1932, held the chair of semiotics at Bologna’s Alma Mater from 1971 to 2007, making the university one of the world’s leading centres for the study of signs and communication. He died in Milan on 19 February 2016, having achieved global literary fame with novels including The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum.”
