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Eco, Umberto

(Encyclopedia)Eco, Umberto mbr´t c [key], 1932–2016, Italian novelist, essayist, and semiotics scholar. His first novel, the best-selling Il nome della rosa (1980; tr. The Name of the Rose, 1983, film ...

Umberto

(Encyclopedia)Umberto. For Italian kings so named, use Humbert.

Boccioni, Umberto

(Encyclopedia)Boccioni, Umberto oombr´t bt-chô´n [key], 1882–1916, Italian futurist painter and sculptor. He played a primary role in the drafting of the manifesto of futurism in 1910 and was the maj...

Nobile, Umberto

(Encyclopedia)Nobile, Umberto oombr´t n´bl [key], 1885–1978, Italian aeronautical engineer and arctic explorer. He designed the dirigible Norge and piloted it in the Amundsen-Ellsworth flight over t...

Giordano, Umberto

(Encyclopedia)Giordano, Umberto oombr´t jrdä´n [key], 1867–1948, Italian operatic composer. His most famous work is the richly melodic Andrea Chénier (1896). Fedora (1898) and Madame Sans-Gêne (191...

Panama Canal Zone

(Encyclopedia)Panama Canal Zone, former territory within Panama, 553 sq mi (1,432 sq km), that was administered by the United States under a 1903 treaty (with later amendments) with Panama. The zone included the Pa...

Ny-Ålesund

(Encyclopedia)Ny-Ålesund nü-ô´lsoon [key] [New Alesund], town, on Kongsfjorden, NW Spitsbergen island, Svalbard, Norway. Established as a coal-mining settlement, it is now a largely seasonal scientific re...

De Sica, Vittorio

(Encyclopedia)De Sica, Vittorio vt-tôr´y d s´k [key], 1901–74, Italian film director and actor. His Shoeshine (1946), The Bicycle Thief (1948), and Umberto D. (1952) are classics of postwar Italian n...

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