1956 – Il problema estetico in San Tommaso

(Torino: Edizioni di Filosofia.)
2d revised ed.: Il problema estetico in Tommaso d'Aquino (Milano: Bompiani, I970)
English Translation:
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas (Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 1988)

1959 – Sviluppo dell'estetica medievale

(Milano: Marzorati)
2d revised ed.: Arte e bellezza nell'estetica medievale (Milano: Bompiani, 1987)
English Translation:
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (London-New Haven: Yale U.P., 1985.)

1962 – Opera aperta

(Milano: Bompiani)
This first edition also contained "Le poetiche di Joyce." Last revised edition, Milano: Bompiani, 1972.
English Translation:
The Open Work (Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 1989 revised.)

1963 – Diario minimo

(Milano: Mondadori)
Revised edition, Milano: Mondadori, 1975.
English Translation:
Misreadings (London:Cape and New York: Harcourt 1993)

1964 – Apocalittici e integrati

(Milano: Bompiani)
Revised edition, Milano: Bompiani, 1977.
English Translation:
Apocalypse Postponed (Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1994)
(Partial translation with other texts.)

1965 – Le poetiche di Joyce

(Milano: Bompiani.)
Revised edition of the second part of 1962's Opera aperta.
English Translation:
1. The Aesthetics of Chaosmos (Tulsa Monograph Series, Oklhaoma University)
2. The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce (London: Hutchinson and Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 1989.)

1967 – Appunti per una semiologia delle comunicazioni visive

(Milano: Bompiani)
(Now in La struttura assente.)

1968 – La struttura assente

(Milano: Bompiani)
Last revised edition, 1983. This work was later revised completely, forming the basis for A Theory of Semiotics.

1968 – La definizione dell'arte

(Milano: Mursia)

1971 – Le forme del contenuto

(Milano: Bompiani)

1971 – Il segno

(Milano: Isedi)
2d edition, Milano: Mondadori.

1973 – Il costume di casa

(Milano: Bompiani)

1973 – Beato di Liébana.

(Milano: F.M. Ricci)

Andrea D'Alessandro remarks: "The Beato di Liébana did a commentary to the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages. Eco cured the photographic reproduction of the original illuminated manuscript of this commentary. The book was printed in a limited series – unfortunately at a very high price (about 200-250 US$ at the time)."

1975 – Trattato di semiotica generale

(Milano: Bompiani)
A translation into Italian of the English revision of A Theory of Semiotics, which was based on La struttura assente.

1976 – A Theory of Semiotics

(Bloomington: Indiana U.P., and London: Macmillan, 1977.)
Original english version of the above Trattato.

1976 – Il superuomo di massa

(Milano: Cooperativa Scrittori.)
Revised ed., Milano: Bompiani, 1978.

1977 – Dalla periferia dell'impero.

(Milano: Bompiani)

1977 – Come si fa una tesi di laurea

(Milano: Bompiani)

1979 – The Role of the Reader

(Bloomington: Indiana U.P. and London: Hutchinson, 1981)
Containing essays from Opera aperta, Apocalittici e integrati, Forme del contenuto, Lector in fabula, Il Superuomo di massa.

1979 – Lector in fabula

(Milano: Bompiani)

1980 – Il nome della rosa

(Milano: Bompiani)
(Commented edition, ed. by Costantino Marmo. Milano: Edizioni Scolastiche Fabbri, 1990).
English Translation:
The Name of the Rose (New York: Harcourt, 1983, London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.)

1983 – Postille al nome della rosa

(Added to the pocket Italian edition, 1984.)
English Translation:
Postscript to The Name of the Rose (New York: Harcourt, 1984.)

1984 – Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio

(Einaudi: Torino)
English Translation:
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1984)

1984 – Conceito de texto

(Sao Paulo: Queiroz)

1985 – Sugli specchi e altri saggi

(Milano: Bompiani)

1988 – Il pendolo di Foucault

(Milano: Bompiani)
English Translation:
Foucault's Pendulum (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1989; London: Secker and Warburg, 1989.)

1989 – Lo strano caso della Hanau 1609

(Milano: Bompiani)

1990 – I limiti dell'interpretazione

(Milano: Bompiani)
English Translation:
The Limits of Interpretation (Bloomington: Indiana U.P.,1990.)

1991 – Stelle e stellette

(Genova: Melangolo)

1992 – Il secondo diario minimo

(Milano: Bompiani)
English Translation:
How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (New York: Hacourt Brace and London: Secker, 1994 partial)

1992 – Interpretation and Overinterpretation

(Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.)

1993 – La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea

(Bari: Laterza)
English Translation:
The Search for the Perfect Language (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.)

1994 – Apocalypse Postponed.

(Bloomington: Indiana U.P.)

1994 – Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

(Cambridge: Harvard U.P.)
Italian Translation:
Sei passeggiate nei boschi narrativi (Milano: Bompiani, 1994.)

1994 – L'isola del giorno prima

(Milano: Bompiani)
English Translation:
The Island of the Day Before (New York: Harcourt Brace and London: Secker and Warburg, 1995)

1996 – In cosa crede chi non crede? (with Carlo Maria Martini)

(Roma: Liberal.)

1997 – Neue Streichholzbriefe.

(München: DTV.)

1997 – Cinque scritti morali

(Milano: Bompiani)

1997 – Kant e l'ornitorinco

(Milano: Bompiani.)

English Translation:

Kant and the Platypus (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999)

1998 – Talking of Joyce (with Liberato Santoro).

(Dublin: University College Dublin Press.)

1998 – Gesammelte Streichholbriefe.

(München: Hanser, 1998.)

1998 – Serendipities. Language and Lunacy.

(New York: Columbia U.P.)

1998 – Tra menzogna e ironia.

(Milano: Bompiani.)

Collaborations and Editing

1961 – Storia figurata delle invenzioni

(Milano: Bompiani)
Edited by U. Eco and G.B. Zorzoli.
English Translation:
1. The Picture History of Inventions (New York: Macmillan, 1963.)
2. The Pictorial History of Inventions (London: Weidenfeld, 1962)

1965 – Il caso Bond

(Milano: Bompiani).
Edited by O. Del Buono and U. Eco.
English Translation:
The Bond Affair (London: Macdonald, 1966)

1966 – La bomba e il generale

(Milano: Bompiani)
Illustrated by Eugenio Carmi.
(revised edition, 1988)
English Translation:
The Bomb and the General

1966 – I tre cosmonauti

(Milano: Bompiani)
Illustrated by Eugenio Carmi.
(revised edition, 1988)
English Translation:
The Three Astronauts

1969 – L'arte come mestiere

(Milano: Bompiani)
Edited by U. Eco.

1969 – I sistemi di segni e lo strutturalismo sovietico

(Milano: Bompiani)
Edited by U. Eco and R. Faccani.

1969 – L'Industria della cultura

(Milano: Bompiani)
Edited by U. Eco.

1969 – Dove e quando? Indagine sperimentale su due diverse edizioni di un servizio di 'Almanacco'

(Roma: Rai, Servizio Programmi Sperimentali-Servizio Opinioni.)
Edited by U. Eco et al.

1970 – Socialismo y consolacion

(Barcelona: Tusquets)
Edited by U. Eco.

1971 – I fumetti di Mao

(Bari: Laterza)
Edited by G. Nebiolo, U. Eco and J. Chesneaux.
English Translation:
The People's Comic Book: Red Women's Detachment, Hot on the Trail, and Other Chinese Comics

1972 – Cent'anni dopo. Il ritorno dell'intreccio

(Milano: Almanacco Bompiani)
Edited by U. Eco and C. Sughi.

1972 – I pampini bugiardi

(Rimini: Guaraldi)
Edited by U. Eco and M. Bonazzi.

1972 – Estetica e teoria dell'informazione

(Milano: Bompiani)
Edited by U. Eco.

1973 – Eugenio Carmi: Una pittura di paesaggio?

(Milano: Prearo)
Edited by U. Eco. With Duncan Mcmillan & Eugenio Carmi.

1976 – Storia di una rivoluzione mai esistita: l'esperimento Vaduz

(Roma: Rai, Servizio Opinioni.)
Edited by U. Eco et al.

1979 – Invernizio, Serao, Liala

(Firenze: La Nuova Italia.)
A cura di U. Eco, I. Pezzini, M.P. Pozzato, M. Federzoni. Il Castoro.

1979 – A Semiotic Landscape

(The Hague: Mouton)
Edited by S. Chatman, U. Eco and J.M. Klinkenberg.
Proceedings of the First Congress of IASS-AIS, Milano, 1974.

1983 – The Sign of Three: Peirce, Holmes, Dupin

(Bloomington: Indiana University Press)
Edited by U. Eco and T.A. Sebeok.
Italian Translation:
Il segno dei tre (Milano: Bompiani 1983)

1988 – Meaning and Mental Representations

(Bloomington: Indiana U.P.)
Edited by U. Eco, M. Santambrogio and P. Violi.

1989 – On the Medieval Theory of Signs

(Amsterdam:Benjamins)
Edited by U. Eco and Costantino Marmo.

1991 – Vocali - Soluzioni felici

(Napoli: Guida)

Eco Umberto & Malvinni Paolo D.

1992 – Gli gnomi di Gnu

(Milano: Bompiani.)
With Eugenio Carmi.

1995 – Povero Pinocchio

(Modena: Comix)
Edited by U. Eco

Translations
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