Novelist Umberto Eco dies at 84; wrote 'Name of the Rose' and 'Foucault's Pendulum' - Los Angeles Times

Umberto Eco, an Italian novelist and intellectual of worldwide renown who imbued his work with humor and scholarship and whose novel “The Name of the Rose” became a global phenomenon, has died, his American publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt confirmed late Friday afternoon.

Numero Zero: 9780544635081: Eco, Umberto, Dixon, Richard: Books

Numero Zero: 9780544635081: Eco, Umberto, Dixon, Richard: Books

Novelist Umberto Eco dies at 84; wrote 'Name of the Rose' and 'Foucault's Pendulum' - Los Angeles Times

Novelist Umberto Eco dies at 84; wrote 'Name of the Rose' and 'Foucault's Pendulum' - Los Angeles Times

Umberto Eco, author of 'The Name of the Rose,' dies

Umberto Eco, author of 'The Name of the Rose,' dies

Novelist Umberto Eco dies at 84; wrote 'Name of the Rose' and 'Foucault's Pendulum' - Los Angeles Times

Umberto Eco, the Often-Confounding Author of The Name of the Rose, Dies at 84

Novelist Umberto Eco dies at 84; wrote 'Name of the Rose' and 'Foucault's Pendulum' - Los Angeles Times