Umberto Eco (1932–2016) is the most famous Italian writer of our time, author of the world bestsellers “The Name of the Rose” (1980) and “Foucault’s Pendulum” (1988), medieval historian, philosopher, semiotician, philologist and historian culture, winner of the most prestigious awards, whose books have been translated into forty languages. The collection “From the Outskirts of Empire” presents essays published in various newspapers and magazines from 1973 to 1976, in which the author analyzes the semiology of everyday life and acts as a careful and ironic critic of the morals and language of the media. Eco talks about what is happening on the periphery of the American empire, namely in the countries of the Mediterranean region, examining advertising slogans, conversations of passengers on the train, Pope Paul VI's message on contraception, Senator Fanfani's attacks on pornography. The publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.