Umberto Eco's The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas identifies the three main characteristics of beauty in Aquinas's philosophy: integritas sive perfectio, consonantia sive debita proportio, and claritas sive splendor formae.

* Constantinople provides the setting of much of the action in Umberto Eco's 2000 novel Baudolino.

He died at Bobbio ( in part the model for the great monastery in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose ) in 615.

The Grail also features heavily in Umberto Eco's 2000 novel Baudolino.

His use of it has inspired other authors ' works ( e. g. Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves ).

* Alexander III is mentioned in Umberto Eco's book Baudolino.

* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in Umberto Eco's novel " The Island of the Day Before " (" L ' isola del giorno prima ", 1994 ), a story about a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped at an island at the International Date Line.

* Umberto Eco's novel Baudolino ( 2000 ) is set partly at Frederick's court, and also deals with the mystery of Frederick's death.

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

* The Dreyfus Affair is woven into the plot of Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery ( 2010 ).

* Umberto Eco's novels, most notably his most famous, The Name of the Rose, are historical novels, taking place in Medieval or Early Modern Europe.

The Prester and his kingdom also figure prominently in Umberto Eco's 2000 novel Baudolino, in which the titular protagonist enlists his friends to write the Letter of Prester John for his adoptive father Frederick Barbarossa, but it is stolen before they can send it out.

Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose ( 1980 ) was a one-off that helped popularise the concept.

Umberto Eco's novel Baudolino ( Milan: Bompiani, 2000.

* At the conclusion of Umberto Eco's " The Name of the Rose ", the unique Medieval library which is at the center of the book's plot is burned and totally destroyed.

* Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose features a murder mystery whose solution hinges on the contents of Aristotle's lost second book of Poetics ( dealing with comedy ).

The narrator of Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose is named Adso of Melk.

* Cagliostro is frequently alluded to in Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum.

Umberto Eco's novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana references Terry and the Pirates, and its title comes from the Italian translation of one of the various adventures.

Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose is set against the persecution of Fraticelli.

This resulted in him being mentioned in the 1982 pseudohistory book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Umberto Eco's 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum, and Dan Brown's 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code.

* In Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum, Alamut is described in detail towards the end of the novel.

* Umberto Eco's 2004 novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana features a protagonist whose doctoral thesis was written on the Hypnerotomachia.

Umberto Eco's The Cemetery of Prague mentions the carbonari, as his main character joins them at one point ( as a spy )

Andronikos was portrayed in the novel Baudolino by Umberto Eco, with much detail being given to his grisly end.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).

During the opening credits of the film version of The Name of the Rose, it is described as " A palimpsest of the novel by Umberto Eco ".

Umberto Eco in his novel The Prague Cemetery has one character, Simonini, send a " petit blue message by pneumatic post ".

* Umberto Eco ( 1932 – present ) made a wider audience aware of semiotics by various publications, most notably A Theory of Semiotics and his novel, The Name of the Rose, which includes applied semiotic operations.

* The Prague Cemetery, novel by Umberto Eco, 2010

* Foucault's Pendulum, a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco

In the novel Baudolino ( 2000 ), Umberto Eco describes the discovery and subsequent donation of the Magi's relics as an elaborate 12th century hoax perpetrated by the title character.

In Foucault's Pendulum, a novel by the Italian philosopher and writer Umberto Eco, the plot concerning a widespread secret and mystic conspiracy has its ground in the disappearance of the Bogomils after the fall of the Second Bulgarian Empire under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

Umberto Eco ’ s The Island of the Day Before, set in the 1640s, features a swashbuckling Cyrano-like character named Saint-Savin, who dictates the shy protagonist ’ s love letters.

There is an adjacent via ( Garibaldi ) that connects the port ( Banchina Commerciale I ) facing the Island of Santo Stefano and Piazza Umberto I with city hall.

* Umberto Eco-The Island of the Day Before

The date line is a central factor in Umberto Eco's book The Island of the Day Before ( 1994 ), in which the protagonist finds himself on a becalmed ship, with an island close at hand on the other side of the International Date Line.

This theme had been explored previously in fiction by Daniel Defoe ( Robinson Crusoe and the robinsonade genre ) and Voltaire ( Candide ), and more recently by William Golding ( Lord of the Flies and Pincher Martin ), Umberto Eco ( The Island of the Day Before ), J. M.

* In Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before, Cockaigne is evoked in a passage describing an ice-tipped mountain.

" Umberto Eco, " The Island of the Day Before ", Penguin Books 1996, page 64

The Island of the Day Before ( L ' isola del giorno prima ) is a 1994 novel by Umberto Eco.

* The Island of the Day Before ( Umberto Eco, 1994 )