Umberto Eco

Actor | Writer

Date of birth : 01/05/1932

Date of death : 02/19/2016

City of birth : Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

He is a professor of semiotics, the study of communication through signs and symbols, at the University of Bologna. Also a philiosopher, a historian, literary critic, and an aesthetician. He is an avid book collector and owns more than 30,000 volumes. The subjects of his scholarly investigations range from St. Thomas Aquinas, to James Joyce, to Superman. He lives in Milan.