Weaver, William
Entry updated 14 April 2025. Tagged: Author, Translator.
(1923-2013) US translator from the Italian, and author mostly of nonfiction studies of Italian composers and their works. He remains best known for his translations of the work of Italo Calvino, whose central canon he conveyed magisterially into English, though he also produced versions of several of Umberto Eco's novels, including The Name of the Rose (1980); other Italian authors with entries in this encyclopedia whom he translated include Primo Levi, Luigi Pirandello and Mario Soldati [for further examples of his work, see these five entries]. As a critic with deep knowledge of Italy and Italian literature, Weaver retained a perhaps surprising (but welcome) clarity and modesty in his rendering of sometimes difficult authors. [JC]
William Fense Weaver
born Washington, District of Columbia: 24 July 1923
died Rhinebeck, New York: 12 November 2013
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