Umberto Eco (b. 1932) is an Italian philosopher and novelist, well known for his novels Il nome della rosa (1980) and Il pendolo di Foucault (1988). He is now the president of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici at the University of Bologna.
Discovered on 6-9-1991 in Haute Provence by Elst, E. W.