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Italian author and intellectual Umberto Eco dies at 84

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Updated: 20/02/2016 - 1:44 GMT+1

The Italian author and intellectual Umberto Eco has died at the age of 84. An accomplished scholar, Eco was nearly 50 years old when his first

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