The celebrated Italian intellectual Umberto Eco shot to fame with his 1980 novel The Name of the Rose. 

“Ma gavte la nata” is a quaint little phrase that Umberto Eco coined in his novel Foucault’s Pendulum as Jacopo Belbo’s favourite expression, used to ridicule anyone who takes himself too seriously. In English we would have something like “take the cork out and let out the wind”.

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