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Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist, cultural critic and philosopher. He is widely known for his 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Foucault’s Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before. Eco was also a translator: he translated Raymond Queneau’s book Exercices de style into Italian. He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino. He died at his Milanese home of pancreatic cancer, from which he had been suffering for two years, on the night of February 19, 2016.