Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is best known for his novel 'The Name of the Rose', which was made into a movie in 1986. His other works include 'Foucault's Pendulum' and 'The Island of the Day Before'. Eco was also a noted scholar of semiotics, the study of signs and symbols, and wrote extensively on the subject. He passed away in 2016 at the age of 84. The crossword solution for the term NOVELIST UMBERTO is ECO.