Talk:William Weaver

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[edit] Pre-eminent?

It would be hard to claim him to be pre-eminent over Sir Thomas Wyatt, the first translator of Petrarch and one of the great poets of Renaissance England ("They fle from me, that sometyme did me seke"), or Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, translator of Dante and author of "The Song of Hiawatha". Still gives him his props, though; his Eco and Calvino translations are brilliant.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.189.172.11 (talk • contribs) 07:44, 5 September 2005

I don't think you even need the qualification of "living" to claim his preeminence, though; there's no more preeminent translator, living or dead, of 20th century italian. But my main reason for posting was for clarity on Weaver's illness. I met Weaver in the Spring of 2002 as a student at Bard College, and he was already in a wheelchair and not quite able to speak as a result of his stroke. This article states that the stroke occurred three years ago (it's published in 2005), so I suppose that give us a rough timeframe of early 2002 (I can't find anymore information on the web). How should we go about incorporating this into the article?~Anthony Mohen