Italian author and intellectual Umberto Eco dies at 84

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Italian author and intellectual Umberto Eco dies at 84



The Italian author and intellectual Umberto Eco has died at the age of 84.

An accomplished scholar, Eco was nearly 50 years old when his first novel,“The Name of the Rose’, was published in 1980.
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The medieval murder mystery, set in a monastery, became a best-seller and was made into a film starring Sean Connery.

Media reports say Umberto Eco died at his home and had been suffering from cancer for some time.

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R.I.P

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"It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once."

― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

"Love is wiser than wisdom."

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another."

― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

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R.I.P.

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
― from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.

What a craftsman.