In Milan, in front of the second floor of Piazza Castello 13, where Umberto Eco ever answered the phone, where treasured a copy of the first edition of Ulysses autographed James Joyce and where he died Friday at 22.30 pm, a student left a white rose yesterday.
in front of the Castello Sforzesco where on Tuesday the funeral and public–laico the correzida door camouflaged elegant building will take place on intercom il Professore under the inscription “Studio EU” received discrete wreaths, a letter. Just last night learned that Eco had pancreatic cancer.
“He worked until the last moment,” said Mario Andreose historical editor at the door of Piazza Castello 13. “In the last three or four days, despite that his health had declined so much, we review the drafts of his latest book to be published by the ship of Theseus, the new label. “
Breaking with years of relationship with the Bompiani publishing, Eco and editor Elisabetta sgarbo had submitted in November 2015 the new independent publishing project. The ship of Theseus planned to launch the test Pape Satan Aleppe in May but Saturday February 27 will be in bookstores. “I had given and corrected. The cover his friend’s designed Cerri. Is a book of reflections on current issues, “said Sgarbi.
The book, whose title is a reference to an ever-enigmatic quote The Divine Comedy (Papa, Satan, the unknown is what Aleppe means) and the subtitle is “Chronicles of a liquid society”, gathers his publishers L’Espresso since 2000. since 1985 Eco wrote weekly La Bustina di Minerva to the last, which was published on January 27.
“It was a free man, endowed with a profound critical spirit and high civil passion. In his autobiography travel research cultural identity of generations of dopoguerra reflected “said Italian President Sergio Mattarella
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said.” It was an outstanding example as a European intellectual; joining a single intelligence passed an inexhaustible ability to anticipate the future. “
” The whole world mourns today a comprehensive humanist who has revolutionized the culture, a deep investigator on the meaning of the signs of words of life, “lamented Francesco Ubertini, rector of the University of Bologna, where he taught Eco semiotics, founder of the career Communication Sciences and the School of Humanistic Studies, who presided until his death . Was the last great polygraph knew embrace the totality of knowledge. “
” He wanted me to participate in the filming of The Name of the Rose . I wanted to represent that character invents its own language, “recalled the Nobel laureate Dario Fo.
No Filter and SUV. Over the years, Eco had become increasingly brazen exquisitely, lucid and refined in its way to combine learning and everyday life. In 2015 he was allowed to speak of “quilombo” in full Jesuit church-turned Aula Magna of the University of Bologna during the ceremony in which the rector of the Alma Mater Studiorum awarded the highest distinction awarded by the oldest university in the Western world, Sigillum Magnum: “This award has been awarded since 1888. If I do not miscalculated, and delivered 137 to Illustrious and deserving people. The rector had to scratch this time in the bottom of the barrel and so came to me, “he joked.
A personal anecdote. Eco was the only one not surprised nor bothered the day when I sneaked him in the elevator of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence who wore the Salone del Cinquecento to assure an interview. Took my two year old daughter in her arms.
What is your name ?, asked.
-Rome.
Why put a name to an imperialist baby so small
In 2015, when I was at home and remembered the story, it seemed that he had not It has been quite gentle and then drew a self-portrait to Rome on the lapel of zero number , his latest novel.
it was in that speech in which he meditated on Eco confessed death since age 12, inspired by the end of the novel Martin Eden , Jack London: ” ‘he fell into darkness as they knew it, ceased to know,’” he read. “At 12 years has haunted me this final in which the protagonist, having known glory, dropped the empty and ends sunk at sea. My meditation on death, since it was molded on this end. “
It was histrionic, prosaic and front. When we visited to discuss Number zero , for the magazine n , had no qualms about confessing that he knew handle the coffee machine and Renate, his wife, he hid the whiskey locked but he knew where to find it. He never wanted to talk about his illness. Much less pain firsthand. “Knowledge, ie culture, raises the threshold of suffering, however, to reflect on the suffering in the art, at the request of the Academy of Sciences in Palliative Medicine is not denied. This cultural component is not worth, I think, to the unbearable pain but for many types of suffering that does not announce a terminal illness, can be encouraged cultural education in the said pain in his Lectio Magistralis-. How this education in pain, I could not. But I think we should all alfabetizarnos in it. And here I stop and leave until next toothache. “
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