The last book from Italian literary giant Umberto Eco, who died last Friday, will be published this coming Friday. Pape Satan Aleppe. Publisher La Nave di Teseo said Chronicles of a Liquid Society is a collection of essays that appeared in Italian weekly L’Espresso since 2000. The main title is the first three words of Canto 7 of “Inferno”, the first part of Dante Alighieri’s 14th century epic poem Divine Comedy. The book was originally due for publication in May, but the date was brought forward after the writer’s death. Eco, the literary and intellectual phenomenon who wrote medieval thriller The Name of the Rose, died at his Milan home at 84.
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