The late William Weaver, a famed translator of novels from the Italian to English, made a great deal of money on his translation of Umberto Eco's The Name Of The Rose. So much in fact, he put a grand addition onto his Tuscan villa. A man of civility and wit, Weaver called it The Eco Chamber. Umberto Eco born this day, 1932, Allesandria, Italy. But th…
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