For 10 points, name this Italian author of The Name of the Rose.
A collection of works by this author includes the hypothetical television media coverage of the landing of Columbus and a parody of Lolita in which the narrator falls in loves with the elderly Granita. In one novel by him, love letters to Lady Lilia are written by a man tasked with discovering the secret of longitude named Roberto della Griva. In one novel by this author of Misreadings, the protagonist debates with a blind man as to whether Jesus Christ ever laughed and Venantius's corpse is found in a vat of pig's blood before Bernardo Gui's inquisition. This author, who wrote of a man who believes himself shipwrecked on the International Date Line in The Island of the Day Before, also wrote a novel in which Adso of Melk assists William of Baskerville in investigating a series of murders at a medieval abbey. For 10 points, name this Italian author of The Name of the Rose.
A collection of works by this author includes the hypothetical television media coverage of the landing of Columbus and a parody of Lolita in which the narrator falls in loves with the elderly Granita.
Umberto Eco