A professor at the University of Bologna, he writes extensively on semiotics and literary theory, but his more famous works include a 1988 novel about three Milanese friends working in publishing, and a man who travels to an abbey to examine a murder.
In 2005's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, an amnesiac rare books dealer discovers a copy of Shakespeare's first folio while trying to remember his role in the second World War. A professor at the University of Bologna, he writes extensively on semiotics and literary theory, but his more famous works include a 1988 novel about three Milanese friends working in publishing, and a man who travels to an abbey to examine a murder. FTP, name this author of Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose.
In 2005's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, an amnesiac rare books dealer discovers a copy of Shakespeare's first folio while trying to remember his role in the second World War.
Umberto {Eco}