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12-428: Surname list Quigly is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Isabel Quigly (1926–2018), English writer and translator Kathleen Quigly (1888–1981), Irish glass artist and painter See also [ edit ] Quigley [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Quigly . If an internal link intending to refer to

24-516: A position as a university lecturer awaiting her in Johannesburg , South Africa , she instead married Salimbeni, with whom she had a son, Crispin; shortly after his birth his parents separated. Quigly "never allowed her son to see his father and could never herself return to Florence again. The story of her failed marriage was not one she liked to talk about." Nevertheless, she and Salimbeni- who died in 1991- remained in contact, corresponding frequently;

36-428: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quigly&oldid=1007192311 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Isabel Quigly Quigly

48-649: A trunkful of Quigly's letters contained an 80-page letter from Salimbeni. Although they apparently only met once after their marriage ended, Quigly was "terribly distressed" at his death; a letter from him arrived thereafter. Quigly and her son, Crispin, shared a close bond, working together on property renovations in Cambridge during his time as an undergraduate there, and later in south-west London. Quigly died in Haywards Heath in 2018. William Weaver William Fense Weaver (24 July 1923 – 12 November 2013)

60-705: The Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts . William Weaver was born in Virginia in 1923, and attended boarding school starting at age 12. Educated at Princeton University , he graduated with a B.A. summa cum laude in 1946, followed by postgraduate study at the University of Rome in 1949. Weaver was an ambulance driver in Italy during World War II for the American Field Service , and lived primarily in Italy after

72-508: 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 (1999). Later in his life, Weaver was a professor of literature at Bard College in New York, and a Bard Center Fellow . He received honorary degrees from

84-535: The exclusive Assumption Convent on Kensington Square in London, accompanied by her beloved Spanish nanny, Tuki- her father was financially ruined; although she and her sister were kept on at the convent with fees waived, they were "made to feel socially inferior". Quigly was subsequently educated at Godolphin School , Salisbury and, having "won scholarships from five different bodies", went up to Newnham College, Cambridge . She

96-406: Was an English language translator of modern Italian literature . Weaver was best known for his translations of the work of Umberto Eco , Primo Levi , and Italo Calvino , but translated many other Italian authors over the course of a career that spanned more than fifty years. In addition to prose, he translated Italian poetry and opera libretti , and worked as a critic and commentator on

108-569: Was born in Ontaneda, Spain, younger daughter of Richard Quigly, a railway engineer of Irish descent, and his wife Clarice, for whom her elder sister, usually known as "Cita", was named. Quigly was named "Elizabeth" by her parents- under this name being registered with British authorities- but the Catholic priest who baptised her insisted Elizabeth was not a real name and named her "Isabel". Although initially raised in considerable material comfort- boarding at

120-590: Was one of the first cohort of women to be awarded a full degree. In her early career, Quigly worked for Penguin Books and Red Cross Geneva. Between 1956 and 1966, she was film critic of The Spectator . She served as literary editor of The Tablet from 1985 to 1997. She also contributed to numerous journals and newspapers, and served on the jury of various literary prizes including the Booker Prize jury in 1986. In 1953, her first book, and only novel, The Eye of Heaven ,

132-639: Was one of the top 10 translators of Italian literature of the last 70 years, alongside Archibald Colquhoun , Patrick Creagh , Angus Davidson , Frances Frenaye , Stuart Hood , Eric Mosbacher , Raymond Rosenthal , Bernard Wall and William Weaver . The Eye of Heaven was autobiographical, based on Quigly's "impulsive and ultimately ill-fated marriage" to "impoverished but aristocratic sculptor" Raffaello Salimbeni, of Sienese origin and ten years her senior, whom she had met and fallen in love with when in Florence. Already engaged to be married to another man, and with

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144-713: Was published. Other books include The Heirs of Tom Brown: The English School Story and Charlie Chaplin: Early Comedies . She has also translated more than 100 books from Italian, Spanish and French. Her most notable translations are Silvano Ceccherini 's The Transfer , for which, in 1967, she won the John Florio Prize , and Giorgio Bassani 's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis . According to Robin Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation , Quigly

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