Umberto Eco Audio & Video

One Colonel Ardenti, who has unnaturally black, brilliantined hair, a carefully groomed mustache, wears maroon socks, and who once...

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate...

By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics.

Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose, speaks about his latest book, Baudolino.

Their wide-ranging conversation will in part focus on Eco's latest work of fiction, The Prague Cemetery.

Eco fuses historical events of the 11th century--told by a survivor from Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire sacked by knights of the Fourth Crusade--with myths and fables, juicy romance, real political issues, and deep questions of faith.

Yambo, a sixtyish rare book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory--he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own nameā€¦

After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked - on a ship. Swept from...