Editing Umberto Eco (section)

== Personal life and death ==
In September 1962 he married {{interlanguage link|Renate Ramge|de}}, a German graphic designer and art teacher with whom he had a son and a daughter.

Eco divided his time between an apartment in [[Milan]] and a vacation house near [[Urbino]]. He had a 30,000-volume library in the former and a 20,000-volume library in the latter.<ref>{{cite news|last=Farndale|first=Nigel|date=24 May 2005|title=Heavyweight champion|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3642577/Heavyweight-champion.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3642577/Heavyweight-champion.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=23 October 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Eco died at his Milanese home of [[pancreatic cancer]],<ref>{{cite news|date=20 February 2016|title=Umberto Eco stroncato da un tumore al pancreas. Martedì omaggio al Castello Sforzesco|language=it|newspaper=Il Messaggero|url=http://spettacoliecultura.ilmessaggero.it/libri/umberto_eco_tumore_pancreas_omaggio_castello_sforzesco-1563954.html|access-date=20 February 2016|archive-date=21 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160221090300/http://spettacoliecultura.ilmessaggero.it/libri/umberto_eco_tumore_pancreas_omaggio_castello_sforzesco-1563954.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> from which he had been suffering for two years, on the night of 19 February 2016.<ref name="Death">{{cite news|last=Gerino|first=Claudio|date=19 February 2016|title=Morto lo scrittore Umberto Eco. Ci mancherà il suo sguardo sul mondo|language=it|newspaper=[[la Repubblica]]|publisher=[[Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso]]|url=http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2016/02/20/news/morto_lo_scrittore_umberto_eco-133816061/|access-date=19 February 2016|archive-date=11 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711014153/http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2016/02/20/news/morto_lo_scrittore_umberto_eco-133816061/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="reuters1">{{cite web|date=20 February 2015|title=Umberto Eco, Italian author of 'The Name of the Rose,' dies at 84|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-italy-eco-idUKKCN0VT037|access-date=20 January 2016|work=[[Reuters]]|first=Philip|last=Pullella|archive-date=12 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912085818/https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-italy-eco/umberto-eco-italian-author-of-the-name-of-the-rose-dies-at-84-idUKKCN0VT033|url-status=dead}}</ref> From 2008 to the time of his death at the age of 84, he was a professor emeritus at the [[University of Bologna]], where he had taught since 1971.<ref name="Death" /><ref>{{cite news|date=20 February 2016|title=Italian author Umberto Eco dies aged 84|work=The Guardian|first=Kevin|last=Rawlinson|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/20/italian-author-umberto-eco-dies-aged-84|access-date=20 February 2016|archive-date=20 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220010410/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/20/italian-author-umberto-eco-dies-aged-84|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="D">{{cite news|title=Remembering Umberto Eco|work=The Atlantic|first=Adam|last=Chandler|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/02/umberto-eco-dies/470235|date=19 February 2016|access-date=19 February 2016|archive-date=20 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220142758/http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/02/umberto-eco-dies/470235/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Kandell|first=Jonathan|date=19 February 2016|title=Umberto Eco, 84, Best-Selling Academic Who Navigated Two Worlds, Dies|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/arts/international/umberto-eco-italian-semiotician-and-best-selling-author-dies-at-84.html|access-date=23 April 2016|archive-date=23 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823105846/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/arts/international/umberto-eco-italian-semiotician-and-best-selling-author-dies-at-84.html|url-status=live}}</ref>