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William Weaver

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Born: July 23 1923

Died: 1111 11 20132013

William Fense Weaver is perhaps best known for his translations of the work of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino, and has translated many other Italian writers over the course of a career spanning more than fifty years. In addition to prose, he has translated Italian poetry and opera libretti, and has worked as a critic and commentator on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts.

Born in the U.S. state of Virginia and educated at Princeton University B.A. summa cum laude in 1946, with postgraduate study at the University of Rome in 1949.[2] Weaver was an ambulance driver in Italy during World War II for the American Field Service, and lived primarily in Italy after the end of the war. Through his friendships with Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia and others, Weaver met many of Italy's leading authors and intellectuals in Rome in the late 1940s and early 1950s; he paid tribute to them in his anthology Open City .

Most recently, Weaver was a professor of literature at Bard College in New York, and a Bard Center Fellow. He received honorary degrees from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom and Trinity College in Connecticut. According to translator Geoffrey Brock, Weaver was too ill to translate Umberto Eco's 2005 novel, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana .

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William Weaver

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Books from William Weaver

The Name of the Rose

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Invisible Cities

Foucault's Pendulum

Baudolino

Cosmicomics

Zeno's Conscience

The Late Mattia Pascal

Marcovaldo

One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays

If Not Now, When?

Travels in Hyperreality

Boredom

The Complete Cosmicomics

That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana

Aracoeli

The Ruin of Kasch

Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I

Open City : Seven Writers in Postwar Rome : Ignazio Silone, Giorgio Bassani, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg, Carlo Levi, Carlo Emili