ROME: Italian author Umberto Eco, who became famous for the 1980 international blockbuster “The Name of the Rose”, died on Friday, Italian media reported. He was 84. “The Name of the Rose,” a murder mystery set in the 14th century, was published in 1980 and caught on with readers worldwide. La Repubblica newspaper said it had been informed by the family that Eco died late on Friday night at his home in northern Italy. Eco was virtually unknown outside university circles until well into middle age, when he found himself an international celebrity overnight after he published his first novel, an unorthodox detective story set in a…
Umberto Eco, author of ‘The Name of the Rose,’ dies at 84
