His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy.Įco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays, and edited and translated into Italian books from French, such as Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style” (1983). He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). He is widely known for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory.

OL14853018W Pages 154 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201201155424 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 503 Scandate 20201129054047 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780297643258 Tts_version 4.Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. The Linguistics of Joseph De MaistreĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:05:10 Boxid IA40009012 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier From Marco Polo to Leibniz: Stones of Intellectual Misunderstandings - 4. Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-119) and indexġ. From Leibniz's belief that the I Ching illustrated the principles of calculus to Marco Polo's mistaking a rhinoceros for a unicorn, Eco tours the labyrinth of intellectual history, illuminating the ways in which we project the familiar onto the strange

In a careful unveiling of the fabulous and the false, Eco shows us how serendipities - unanticipated truths - often spring from mistaken ideas.

Exploring the 'Force of the False,' Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route to the East via the West and thus fortuitously 'discovering' America. Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the 'linguistics of the lunatic,' stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world.

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