Italian author and professor of semiotics Umberto Eco died on February 19, 2016 at the age of 84. Eco studied symbols for a living, not just what things mean but how things come to mean what they do, and his day job as a professor of signs lead to his writing fiction that twisted and got knotted up in satisfying ways. Eco understood that all stories are on some level about storytelling itself, and many of Eco's tales operated on both of these levels at once. Here are 15 vocabulary words from quotes from the complicated, fascinating mind of Umberto Eco.
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