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Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel 'The Name of the Rose,' a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as 'Foucault's Pendulum,' his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.

Umberto Eco’s private library was a world in itself: more than 30,000 contemporary books and 1,500 rare and antique volumes. Director Davide Ferrario had worked with Eco one year before the writer’s death on a video project for the Venice Art Biennale in 2015, gaining access to the library.
With the help of Eco’s family he has now produced a documentary that describes a one-of-a-kind place, but also tries to catch and represent the universal idea of a library as “memory of the world”, as Eco himself
liked to describe it.

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