For 10 points, name this writer who described the conspiracy theorist Casaubon in Foucalt's Pendulum and the medieval detective William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose.
One novel by this man depicts the siege of Casale and the wreck of Captain Wanderdrossel's ship, the Daphne. He collaborated with Richard Rorty and others on Interpretation and Overinterpretation, and he also wrote a study on the "middle ages" of James Joyce, The Aesthetics of Chaosmos. This author of The (*) Island of the Day Before and The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna wrote a novel in which Inspector de Angelis and the Brazlian mistress Amparo both interact with a man who is trying to locate his friend Jacopo Belbo. For 10 points, name this writer who described the conspiracy theorist Casaubon in Foucalt's Pendulum and the medieval detective William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose.
One novel by this man depicts the siege of Casale and the wreck of Captain Wanderdrossel's ship, the Daphne.
Umberto {Eco}