{{Short description|American translator}} '''Raymond B. Rosenthal''' (December 19, 1914 – July 24, 1995) was an American translator, best known for translating the Italian works of Primo Levi into the English language. He died of lung cancer.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Pace |first1=Eric |title=Raymond Rosenthal Dies at 80; Translator of European Fiction |work=The New York Times |date=1995-07-25 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/25/obituaries/raymond-rosenthal-dies-at-80-translator-of-european-fiction.html |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> He also translated works by Pietro Aretino, Tommaso Landolfi, Aldo Busi, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Vasco Pratolini, Pietro Citati, Giovanni Verga and Pietro Redondi.

==Works in English translation== * Tommaso Landolfi - ''Gogol’s Wife and Other Stories'', (New Directions, 1963) * Vasco Pratolini - ''Bruno Santini'' (Little, Brown, 1964) * Mario Tobino - ''The Underground'' (Heinemann, 1966) * Vasco Pratolini - ''Metello'' (Little, Brown, 1968) * Tommaso Landolfi - ''Cancerqueen'' (Dial Press, 1971) * Pietro Aretino - ''Dialogues'' (Allen and Unwin, 1972) * Pietro Citati - ''Goethe'' (Dial Press, 1974) * Giovanni Verga - ''The House of the Medlar Tree'' (New American Library, 1975) * Simone Pétremont - ''Simone Weil: A life'' (Pantheon Books, 1976) * Pietro Citati - ''Tolstoy'' (Schocken Books, 1986) * Pietro Citati - ''Kafka'' (Knopf, 1990) * Primo Levi - ''The Sixth Day and Other Tales'' (Summit, 1990) * Primo Levi - ''Periodic Table'' (Schoken Books, 1984) * Pietro Redondi - ''Galileo: heretic'', (Princeton University Press, 1987) * Gabriele D'Annunzio - ''Nocturne and Five Tales of Love and Death'' (Marlboro, 1988) * Primo Levi - ''Other People's Trades'' (Summit Books, 1989) * Aldo Busi - ''The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman'' (New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988; London, Faber and Faber, 1990) * Primo Levi - ''The Drowned and the Saved'' (Summit Books, 1988) * Primo Levi - ''The Mirror Maker'' (Schoken Books, 1989) * Primo Levi - ''Other People's Trades'' (Summit Books, 1989) * Franco Ferrucci - ''The Life of God (as told by himself)'' (University of Chicago Press, 1996)

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