The 44,000-volume-strong library
of late writer and semiologist Umberto Eco has found a home in a
wing of the library of his alma mater and old academic stamping
ground, the world's oldest seat of higher learning, Bologna
University.
The beloved books of the Name of the Rose author, who died in
2016, will be arranged in the same order Eco used in his home.
The university said once the move is completed next spring or
summer it will "lay on a fascinating journey into the working
methods and mental filing system of one of the most widely
translated Italian writers and intellectuals in the world".
Eco's children Stefano and Carlotta have also agreed with the
uni to set up a digitized archive of all their father's notes
and comments to the texts.
Eco's papers will arrive at his old uni later on, it said.
His collection of 1,200 antique books and incunabola has been
given to Milan's Braidense Library where it ill be digitized.
Eco (5 January 1932 - 19 February 2016) was an Italian
medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic,
political and social commentator, and novelist.
In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name
of the Rose, a historical murder mystery combining semiotics in
fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary
theory, and Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on
similar themes
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