La Repubblica Italian: http://www.repubblica.it/servizi/complessa_online.html Eco frequently writes for Italy's La Repubblica. The link above will take you to their search page ("Ricerca nel sito"), where you may type in "Umberto Eco" for a directory of his recent writings. La Bustina di Minerva Italian: http://www.espressoedit.kataweb.it "La Bustina di Minerva," Umberto Eco's column for L'Espresso, an Italian weekly, is online at their site. Of course, they are written in Italian, and you have to perform a search for them -- the site is very logically organized. Just go to the L'Espresso main page, and type in "Umberto Eco" or "Minerva" into the search engine ("Circa nel sito"), and click the button "Vai" ("Go").