The Italian author Umberto Eco, at his publisher’s office in New York in 1995.

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)

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