One of the seventeen intellectuals Elders Forum UNESCO and Prince of Asturias Award for Communication in 2000, Umberto Eco died Friday at age 84 in his . home in Milan
from the President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, to the prime minister, Matteo Renzi, in addition to the Culture Minister Dario Franceschini; of Education, Stefania Giannini; or Reform, Maria Elena Boschi; but also writers like Roberto Saviano or Elisabetta Sgarbi, expressed regret at the disappearance of the intellectual.
Italy mourned to dismiss Eco, intellectual restless spirit and insatiable curiosity criticism gave to the jewelry literature as
“the name of the rose”, which became the brilliant way a bestseller in 1980 and was later made into a film by the French Jean-Jacques Annaud.
Many bemoan today in Italy that Eco was not awarded the Nobel Prize, others prefer to remember him as the “complete humanism” that led Italian literature all over the world.
with the phrase “a great Italian, a great European,” Prime Minister Renzi give his farewell to the author of “Foucault’s pendulum” while Mattarella said that was “a free man, endowed a deep critical spirit. “
” Umberto Eco lived immersed in the contradictions of his time without being overwhelmed, “said Mattarella.
culture Minister Franceschini, philosopher and semiotician born in the Piedmont region was “a giant who led the Italian culture throughout the world,” while the minister of education Giannini said it was “an extraordinary intellectual, writer and teacher” .
multiple messages that have happened throughout the day in social networks, there have been appointments to said “the name of the rose”.
This has been chosen by the Minister for Reforms, Maria Elena Boschi, and also by the writer Roberto Saviano formula, which simply tweeted: “Payroll tenemus naked. Goodbye Professor. “
The Latin phrase is the expression that concludes” The Name of the Rose “, which was awarded in 1981 in Italy with the Strega Prize and the Medicis in France, and means that the end is only the name of things.
Although still not officially confirmed, Italian media said there will be a chapel on Tuesday in the Sforzesco Castle in Milan.
in Italy today also said the “ironic and accurate review” criticism he made in his latest book “Zero Number”, which put on the table the shame of bad journalism, lies and manipulation of history.
in an interview with Efe in April at his home in Milan, Eco said that the novel is a parody on the current turbulent times because “that’s the critical role of the intellectual.”
“that’s my way of contributing to clarify a few things. The intellectual can not do anything, can not make a revolution. Revolutions made by intellectuals are always very dangerous, “he said.
regulars Eco’s novels do not have to be content with his recent readers read” Number Zero “, but next March will be available in bookstores his latest book, he had already written but had not yet seen the light, entitled “Pape Satan Aleppe”, as said today the writer Elisabetta Sgarbi, founder of the publishing house La Nave di Teseo.
Author of works such as “the island of the day before,” “Baudolino” or “the Prague cemetery” along his professional life was also responsible for numerous essays on semiotics, aesthetics medieval, linguistics and philosophy.
His first work of semiotics was “The structura assente” published in 1968 and supplemented by the “Treaty of general semiotics” (1975), which was used as volume reference worldwide.
Legion of Honor of France since 1993 Austrian State prize for European Literature for all his work in 2004, in Salzburg, was named Doctor “honoris causa” for more 25 universities, including the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Tel Aviv, Athens, Warsaw and Berlin.
in his later years he combined his academic and literary activity conferences, seminars, debates and collaborations in the media. (EFE)
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