Umberto Eco

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Umberto Eco (January 5th,, 1932 in Alessandria, Piemonte) is an Italian writer and professor for middle age history in Bologna.

Eco was born in 1932 in Northern Italy. After his school time he studied philosophy, history, literature and educational sciences. He finished his studies with a doctoral thesis about Tomas d'Aquino in 1954. In 1962 he married. His career as writer began with The name of the rose in 1980.