Also respected in the field of semiotics, he was born in 1931 in Piedmont.
His most recent novel is about a man named Yambo who suffers from a form of amnesia. An ear- lier work concerned three editors who create something known as The Plan, and his first novel's protago- nist was Brother William of Baskerville. This writer's last name is an acronym that stands for "a gift out of heaven" in Latin. Also respected in the field of semiotics, he was born in 1931 in Piedmont. Name this Italian Medievalist who wrote The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Name of the Rose.
His most recent novel is about a man named Yambo who suffers from a form of amnesia.
Umberto Eco