You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

Medievalist, Semiotician, Philosopher, Literary critic and Novelist                          

Selected Works:

Il nome della rosa - 1980; English translation: The Name of the Rose, 1983
Il pendolo di Foucault - 1988; English translation: Foucault's Pendulum, 1989
L'isola del giorno prima - 1994; English translation: The Island of the Day Before, 1995
Baudolino - 2000; English translation: Baudolino, 2001
La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana - 2004; English translation: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, 2005
Il cimitero di Praga - 2010; English translation: The Cemetery of Prague, 2011

Non-fiction books:

Il problema estetico in San Tommaso - 1956 – English translation: The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas, 1988, Revised
"Sviluppo dell'estetica medievale", in Momenti e problemi di storia dell'estetica - 1959 – Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, 1985
Opera aperta - 1962, rev. 1976 – English translation: The Open Work - 1989
Diario Minimo - 1963 – English translation: Misreadings, 1993
Apocalittici e integrati - 1964 – Partial English translation: Apocalypse Postponed, 1994
Le poetiche di Joyce - 1965 – English translations: The Middle Ages of James Joyce, The Aesthetics of Chaosmos, 1989
La Struttura Assente - 1968 – The Absent Structure
Il costume di casa - 1973 – English translation: Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality, 1986
Trattato di semiotica generale - 1975 – English translation: A Theory of Semiotics, 1976
Il Superuomo di massa - 1976
Dalla periferia dell'impero - 1977
Lector in fabula - 1979
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts - 1979 – English edition containing essays from Opera aperta, Apocalittici e integrati, Forme del contenuto - 1971, Il Superuomo di massa, Lector in Fabula.
Sette anni di desiderio - 1983
Postille al nome della rosa - 1983 – English translation: Postscript to The Name of the Rose, 1984
Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio - 1984 – English translation: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, 1984
De Bibliotheca - 1986 – in Italian and French
I limiti dell'interpretazione - 1990 – The Limits of Interpretation, 1990
Interpretation and Overinterpretation - 1992 – with R. Rorty, J. Culler, C. Brooke-Rose; edited by S. Collini
La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea - 1993 – English translation: The Search for the Perfect Language - The Making of Europe, 1995
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods - 1994
Incontro – Encounter – Rencontre - 1996 – in Italian, English, French
In cosa crede chi non crede? - with Carlo Maria Martini, 1996 – English translation: Belief or Nonbelief?: A Dialogue, 2000
Cinque scritti morali - 1997 – English translation: Five Moral Pieces, 2001
Kant e l'ornitorinco - 1997 – English translation: Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition, 1999
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy - 1998
How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays - 1998 – Partial English translation of Il secondo diario minimo, 1994
Experiences in Translation, University of Toronto Press - 2000
Sulla letteratura, - 2003 – English translation by Martin McLaughlin: On Literature, 2004
Mouse or Rat?: Translation as negotiation - 2003
Storia della bellezza - 2004, co-edited with Girolamo de Michele – English translation: History of Beauty/On Beauty, 2004
A passo di gambero. Guerre calde e populismo mediatico - Bompiani, 2006 – English translation: Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism, 2007, Alastair McEwen
Storia della bruttezza - Bompiani, 2007 – English translation: On Ugliness, 2007
Dall'albero al labirinto: studi storici sul segno e l'interpretazione - Bompiani, 2007
The Infinity of Lists - Rizzoli, 2009

Books for children:

- Art by Eugenio Carmi

La bomba e il generale - 1966, Rev. 1988 – English translation: The Bomb and the General
I tre cosmonauti - 1966 – English translation: The Three Astronauts
Gli gnomi di Gnu - 1992 – English translation: The Gnomes of Gnu.

                          

Mother Giovanna Eco
Father Giulio Eco
Wife Renate Ramge, two children.                          

President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna

Member of the Accademia dei Lincei, since November 2010

Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.                          

Eco left the Roman Catholic Church after a crisis of faith - 1954.