Umberto Eco, born on 5 January 1932, was a distinguished Italian linguist, specializing in semiotics. and a successful novelist, author of
The Name of the Rose (1980). This first novel sold several million copies, was translated into over 40 languages, and gave rise to a movie in 1986 by the French director
Jean-Jacques Annaud, with
Sean Connery in the role of
Brother Guillaume de Baskerville, an ex-inquisitor investigating the suspicious death of a monk in a monastery in Northern Italy. Click
here to view the opening of this powerful movie. Personally, I look upon this work as a total success, compared with the total failure of the infamous book and movie by
Dan Brown.
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