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This article was published on February 20, 2016 at 11:46.
They are many, from a side of the globe, the reaction to the death of Umberto Eco, marks a reputation that was perhaps the best-known Italian intellectual and given to the world. From simple players to the highest institutional authorities, numerous kmessaggi of condolence after the release of the news of his death.
The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella is said “very saddened” by the death of Umberto Eco. “Umberto Eco – continues Mattarella – was a free man, with a deep critical spirit and great civic passion. It was a protagonist of Italian and international intellectual debate. In his autobiography – he says the head of state – is reflected in the search path of cultural identity of entire post-war generations. Interpreter, in his youthful years, the enzymes that animated the Catholic world, was able to express creatively in its different curiosity that guided him, and in the field of testing of languages, from the television, and on that of semiotic research. Social criticism that he expressed in his essays and in his frequent speeches with disclosure was the daughter of this reading skills of contemporary society. Umberto Eco has lived immersed in the contradictions of his time, not allow himself to be carried away. ” The President of the Republic still remembers Eco like “acute and disenchanted observer, fine writer, precursor and investigator of phenomena and trends” and that “it is always projected in the international dimension, far away from any dogmatic or provincial closure. His essays and his novels – he concludes – have brought great prestige to Italy and enriched the culture of all latitudes. ”
The president of Matteo Renzi Council recalled the writer and intellectual who died in the night in Milan as an “outstanding example of European intellectuals, he joined a unique understanding of the past in an inexhaustible ability to anticipate the future.” Renzi had entertained the last time with Eco Expo in Milan last June together with the French President, Francois Hollande, right on the issues of European identity, scientific innovation, memory and the fight against intolerance.
The news on social networks
A few minutes after spreading the news of the death of Umberto Eco on the net and bounces literally exploding social networks. So on twitter writer who loved to say, “whoever does not read, 70 years will have ‘lived one life’, becomes in a matter of minutes the Italian top trend and the protagonist of hundreds of conversations. The tribute-social results in dozens of photos depicting the intellectual in the chair, while he works, among his beloved books. It all happens at night. The “Eco” phenomenon is spreading silent and unstoppable. The tweets come from all over Italy, posted by politicians, intellectuals, colleges and friends. But also by the many readers who have loved reading the pages of his books, beginning with “The Name of the Rose”, he translated all over the world and with millions of copies sold. In the tweet sea jump in the eyes of those Bompiani ( “Mourning for culture, let us Umberto Eco. We are saddened”), the mayor of Milan Giuliano Pisapia ( “Goodbye teacher and friend, the genius of knowledge in love with Milan. Our city without you is sadder and poorer “). Then those of Ezio Mauro ( “Hello Umberto, culture as passion ‘), Gad Lerner (” Regret and sadness at the death of the great Umberto Eco “), Roberto Saviano (” naked Appointment tenemus. Professor Goodbye “), and then Gene dumplings, Gianni Cuperlo, Ivan Scalfarotto, Stefano Bonaccini. Then what of singer Naomi ( “Umberto Eco a part of our culture and literature. Now it’s up to us”) and many others mentioning his many maxims, become good habit for generations of Italians: “The good of a book lies in ‘to be read’, ‘Readers will have lived 5,000 years. Literature is an immortality backward, “” The books are respected by using them, not leaving them alone. ”
The toll on international press
From Europe to the United States, through the Arab countries. The international press pays tribute to Umberto Eco and most dedicates an article on the front page online. “Death of Umberto Eco, the author of the medieval novel” The Name of the Rose “,” is the title that stands in Le Monde which devotes several articles and a big picture; title also similar for Liberation. The news of the death of Eco also appears on the Emirati newspaper Gulf News and the Huffington Post on all editions. Almost all the British press devotes its cover to the philosopher, best remembered for “The Name of the Rose”, by which he was the eponymous movie starring Sean Connery in 1986. “The Italian writer Umberto Eco dies at 84 years,” is the title of the BBC, followed by the Guardian that also reminds as a critic, by the Independent ( “He conquered the worldwide notoriety for & gt; the name of the rose”) and by the Daily Telegraph who points out that “it was considered by many as one of the the greatest writers of the Italian literature. ” “He died the scholar and Italian novelist Umberto Eco, was an expert in the arcane field of semiotics, whose seven works of fiction also includes the blockbuster” The Name of the Rose ‘, is the title of the New York Times, followed by the Wall Street Journal, “He died the author of the name of the rose.” While the Los Angeles Times remembers him as “the intellectual who wove semiotics, history and religion in his novels have become bestsellers.”
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