
FILE — The Italian author Umberto Eco, at his publisher’s office in New York, Nov. 1, 1995. Eco, a semiotician whose half-dozen novels including the blockbuster “The Name of the Rose†were infused with his many scholarly preoccupations, died on Feb. 19, 2016 at home in Italy. He was 84. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)