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UMBERTO ECO'S FIRST BOOKGIUSEPPE FLORES D'ARCAIS'S COPY
4to (250x176 mm). 157, [3] pages. Original publisher's wrappers. A good copy, uncut and mostly unopened, leaves slightly uniformly browned. Provenance: Giuseppe Flores d'Arcais, considered the founder of the school of personalized pedagogy (his large signature on the front cover and the label of his library on the spine).
First edition of the first book by the famous Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco. Il problema estetico in San Tommaso consists of an enlargement of Eco's thesis developed with the historian and philosopher Luigi Pareyson (1918-1981) on the theme of the complex and original aesthetic theories advanced by the influential medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274).
Umberto Eco, a native of Alexandria, graduated in 1954 from the University of Turin with a thesis on St. Thomas Aquinas. After teaching at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Milan, at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence and at the Polytechnic of… Read More