Umberto Eco
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In a Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010, file photo, Italian writer, medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelists Umberto Eco waves to public during the Italian State RAI TV program in Milan, Italy. Eco, best known for the international best-seller “The Name of the Rose,” died Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, according to spokeswoman Lori Glazer of Eco’s American publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He was 84. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)
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Italian writer Umberto Eco gestures as he speaks during a press conference at the 25th Annual Book Fair in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Celebrated Italian writer Umberto Eco said Wednesday boycotting scholars for their governments' policies is "a form of racism" and "absolutely crazy." But he says he faced no pressure from colleagues to boycott a book fair in Jerusalem to protest Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
