William Weaver
William Weaver is celebrated for his numerous translations from the Italian, including Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and novels and stories by Italo Calvino. Weaver's translation of Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal is also published by NYRB Classics.
From the Review
October 10, 2002: Silone's Mystery (letter)
June 27, 2002: The Silone Case (letter)
March 14, 2002: The Mystery of Ignazio Silone
La cultura a Torino tra le due guerre (Culture in Turin Between the Two Wars) by Angelo D'Orsi
Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945 by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Processo a Silone: La disavventura di un povero cristiano(Silone on Trial: The Misadventure of a Poor Christian) by Giuseppe Tamburrano, with Gianna Granati and Alfonso Isinelli
L'informatore: Silone, i comunisti e la Polizia (The Informer: Silone, the Communists, and the Police) by Dario Biocca and Mauro Canali
June 25, 1998: Roman Candle
June 9, 1994: A Case for Textual Harassment
June 13, 1985: On 'Krazy Kat' and 'Peanuts'
May 12, 1983: The Written and the Unwritten Word
From New York Review Books
 | That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana The modernist masterpiece of Italian literature and the most metaphysical of all metaphysical detective stories investigates a brutal murder and the ultimate impossibility of ever establishing the truth. |
 | The Late Mattia Pascal Nobel Prize–winner Luigi Pirandello is at once the most teasing and profound of modern masters, a connoisseur of ironies and impossibilities, and The Late Mattia Pascal is undoubtedly his most polished performance as a writer of fiction. |
 | Boredom Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity. |
Books by William Weaver
A Tent in This World (1999)
A Legacy of Excellence: The Story of Villa I Tatti (1997)
Vibration Problems in Engineering (1990)
Duse, a Biography (1984)
The Golden Century of Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini (1980)
Puccini: The Man and His Music (1977)