Internationally acclaimed Italian author and philosopher Umberto Eco has died at age 84. His death was confirmed by his American publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Born in a small Italian town in ...

Few of us have time to read serious books these days. Fewer still have the patience—or the discipline—to engage in the kind of rigorous philosophical analysis needed to understand the roots of the ...

Few figures shine as brightly as Galileo Galilei, an Italian philosopher whose contributions to astronomy revolutionized the understanding of the stars. "Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) has always played ...

Rome, Feb 20 (EFE).Rome, Feb 20 (EFE). — The Italian bestselling writer and philosopher Umberto Eco, best known for his novel ‘The name of the Rose’, has died at his home in Italy late on Friday, ...

Italian philosopher and bestselling novelist Umberto Eco died Friday at 84 years old. His death was confirmed by his Italian publisher, Bompiani, according to the Italian news agency ANSA. Lawyer and ...

Japanese academics have criticized a government decision that they say effectively refused to allow the Italian scholar and political activist Antonio Negri to enter the country. Mr. Negri, a Marxist ...