Hundreds of Italians fired Tuesday afternoon in Milan with a secular funeral ceremony to “intellectually” Umberto Eco , endowed an “insatiable curiosity” and “master of words”.
the simple wooden coffin of the author of “the name of the rose”, died Friday at age 84 of cancer , all covered field flower and white roses, left his home in square number Castillo 13, to applause, to the courtyard of the Castello Sforzesco, a few meters away, where he was dismissed by family, friends and acquaintances.
By the will of the renowned intellectual, philosopher, semiotician, linguist, historian and writer , the ceremony was strictly secular and short.
“It difficult to talk about Umberto Eco, a master of the word “and” such an important figure of Italian culture, “admitted his friend and historical editor, Mario Andreose during the ceremony.
Representatives of culture and the publishing world attended, as well as their neighbors and their group of acquaintances with whom I used to meet every week to discuss all kinds of topics and tell jokes, those who knew hundreds by a memory of iron.
“ Eco is the symbol of innovative classicism we need. We have lost a teacher, but we have not lost their lesson. Dear Professor Eco, Umberto dear, this is not a farewell , “said Education Minister moved, Stefania Gannini.
Umberto Eco who achieved worldwide fame in the 80s with “ the name of the rose “, a medieval police and erudite narrative that sold 50 million copies and was translated into 40 languages, leave an important legacy for his “insatiable curiosity”.
“During his silences flipping through endless library was carrying,” said the Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini.
Born January 5, 1932 in Alessandria , Piedmont, northern Italy, Eco was a complete intellectual.
from his first work “the aesthetic problem Thomas Aquinas” (1956) to the last “Zero Number” Eco addressed issues such as the manipulation of information, theology, medieval aesthetics, poetics of James Joyce, main memory, James Bond, the art of conspiracy, comics, beauty or ugliness and even internet and social networks.
A committed intellectual
Umberto Eco was also a man committed politically. His last fight was given along with other writers, to launch a new publishing house, “The spacecraft di Teseo”, to ensure editorial pluralism in Italy after purchase by RCS Libri Mondadori, owned by the family of Silvio Berlusconi , whom he opposed without hesitation.
Moved, her friend Elisabetta Sgarbi, director of the publishing house will release on Friday the latest book by Eco, “Pape Satan Aleppo”, remember the words he said to please project: “they are an act of freedom”
His relatives and friends, including Mario Andreose, confided that Umberto Eco was primarily “a good person”, endowed with an incredible love for others. , an insatiable curiosity, a sense of irony and permanent “the desire to have fun and entertain others.”
We also talked about the “courage to face the toughest challenges.”
his grandson Emanuele, 15, thrilled the audience by describing his grandfather, books and music led him to discover.
“Have you had a grandfather like me full of pride, “he confessed.
At the request of Renate Ramage Eco, the writer’s wife, sonata La folia Arcangelo Corelli, Eco played the clarinet, marked the farewell of one of the personalities more prestigious in Italy.
After the ceremony, which was broadcast live on the first channel of public television RAI, Eco’s body was transferred to be cremated in a private ceremony.
The Italian Senate taxed his own tribute by observing a minute of silence.
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