“There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.”

— Umberto Eco, book The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose (1980)

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Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic… 1932–2016

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