William Fense Weaver (24 July 1923 – 12 November 2013)[1] was an English language translator of modern Italian literature.
William Weaver was born in Virginia in 1923, and attended boarding school starting at age 12.
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 (1999).
He received honorary degrees from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom and Trinity College in Connecticut.
[3] Bassani, Giorgio Bellonci, Maria Berto, Giuseppe Calasso, Roberto Capriolo, Paola Cassola, Carlo De Carlo, Andrea De Céspedes, Alba Elkann, Alain Fallaci, Oriana Festa Campanile, Pasquale Fruttero, Carlo & Lucentini, Franco Gadda, Carlo Emilio La Capria, Raffaele Lavagnino, Alessandra Levi, Primo Loy, Rosetta Luciani, Albino Malerba, Luigi Montale, Eugenio Morante, Elsa Moravia, Alberto Moretti, Ugo Parise, Goffredo Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pirandello, Luigi Rosso, Renzo Sanguineti, Edoardo Silone, Ignazio Soldati, Mario Svevo, Italo Verdi, Giuseppe and Arrigo Boito Zavattini, Cesare