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Bible The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a ...
( it, Bibbia) has been translated into Italian many times since the first printed translation, the so-called ''Malermi Bible'', by Nicolò Malermi in 1471. The CEI Bible published by the Episcopal Conference of Italy (
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana The Italian Episcopal Conference ( it, Conferenza Episcopale Italiana) or CEI is the episcopal conference of the Italian bishops of the Catholic Church, the official assembly of the bishops in Italy. The conference was founded in 1971 and carrie ...
) is the official version of the Italian Catholic Church. Prior to the initial publication of the CEI edition in 1971, the most common Italian translation of the bible was that of Archbishop
Antonio Martini Antonio Martini (b. at Prato in Tuscany, 20 April 1720; d. at Florence, 31 December 1809) was an Italian biblical scholar and Archbishop of Florence. His translation of the Bible in Italian, formally approved by the papacy, was widely used in Ital ...
, published from 1769–1781. The 1607 Italian translation by
Giovanni Diodati Giovanni Diodati or Deodati (3 June 15763 October 1649) was a Genevan-born Italian Calvinist theologian and translator. His translation of the Bible into Italian from Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Syriac sources became the reference version used by ...
is the standard reference used in Italian Protestantism; a revised edition of this translation in modern Italian, ''Nuova Diodati'', was published in 1991.


Early translations

The first printed translation of the Bible into Italian was the so-called ''Malermi Bible'', by Nicolò Malermi in 1471 from the
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version
Vulgate The Vulgate (; also called (Bible in common tongue), ) is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible. The Vulgate is largely the work of Jerome who, in 382, had been commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Gospels u ...
. Other early
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translations into Italian were made by the Dominican ''Fra Zaccaria of Florence'' in 1542 (the New Testament only) and by ''Santi Marmochino'' in 1543 (complete Bible).
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translations were made by
Antonio Brucioli Antonio Brucioli (born about 1498, died 6 December 1566) was an Italian humanist, religious thinker, publisher, and writer best known for his translation of the Bible into Italian. He was the first to publish an Italian translation of Aristotle's ...
in 1530, by ''Massimo Teofilo'' in 1552 and by Giovanni Diodati in 1607 who translated the Bible from Latin and Jewish documents; Diodati's version is the reference version for Italian Protestantism. This edition was revised in 1641, 1712, 1744, 1819 and 1821. A revised edition in modern Italian, ''Nuova Diodati'', was published in 1991. The most used
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Bible translation in Italian before the 1971 CEI edition was that of Archbishop Antonio Martini. It was published from 1769 to 1771 (
New Testament The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christ ...
) and 1776 to 1781 (
Old Testament The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...
), and it was formally approved by the
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. It consists of parallel columns of Latin Vulgate and Italian with long and detailed notes based mainly on the
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writings. The translation is based on the Vulgate checked with the original Greek and Hebrew texts (Martini was assisted in interpreting the Old Testament by a
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). It also includes a list of the main textual variants for each book. In the 1870 edition, the notes were rewritten and shortened. From 1858–1860 the
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Samuel David Luzzatto Samuel David Luzzatto ( he, שמואל דוד לוצאטו, ; 22 August 1800 – 30 September 1865), also known by the Hebrew acronym Shadal (), was an Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement. Early ...
translated part of the Old Testament into Italian.


Translations since the 20th century

Major Bible editions published since the 20th century include: * ''la Riveduta'' of 1924 by the Waldesan Giovanni Luzzi, based on the Wescott-Hort text, revised in 1994 and in 2006 with the title ''Nuova riveduta''; * ''La Bibbia'' of ''Eusebio Tintori'', 1931; * ''La Sacra Bibbia'' edited by
Giuseppe Ricciotti Giuseppe Ricciotti (1890 in Rome – 1964) was an Italian canon regular, Biblical scholar and archeologist. He is famous mainly for his book ''The Life of Christ'' edited in 1941 and reedited and reprinted several times. Life Ricciotti was born ...
, 1955; * ''La Sacra Bibbia'' edited by Pontifical Biblical Institute, 9 volumes, 1958; * ''La Bibbia'', Edizioni Paoline, 1958 (1968); * ''La Bibbia'' of
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''Alberto Vaccari'', 1958; * ''La Bibbia'' edited by ''Fulvio Nardoni'', 1960; * ''Collana La Sacra Bibbia'', Marietti 1947-1960, edited by ''Salvatore Garofalo'', in many volumes; * ''Traduzione del Nuovo Mondo delle Sacre Scritture,'' 1967; * ''La Bibbia Concordata'', 1968 Mondadori, an Interfaith edition edited by a group of Catholic, Jewish, Protestant and Orthodox scholars; * ''La Sacra Bibbia'' edited by Enrico Galbiati, Angelo Penna and Piero Rossano. Utet 1963, 1964, 1973; * ''La Sacra Bibbia'' (CEI edition), 1971 (1974); * ''La Bibbia di Gerusalemme'', 1974 * ''Bibbia TILC'', an Interconfessional edition edited by Catholic and Protestant scholars in 1985; * ''Nuovissima versione'' edited by Edizione Paoline in 1987; *''Traduzione del Nuovo Mondo delle Sacre Scritture,'' 1987, based on the English 1984 edition of the
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
'' Produced and published by
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; * ''La Sacra Bibbia'' (second CEI edition), 2008; * ''La Bibbia di Gerusalemme'', 2009 *''Traduzione del Nuovo Mondo delle Sacre Scritture'' (nwt), 2017, the Bible is based on the English 2013 revision of the
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
'' Produced and published by
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The group reports a worldwide membership of approximately 8.7 million adherents involved in ...
; *''Traduzione del Nuovo Mondo delle Sacre Scritture (edizione per lo studio)'' (nwtsty), 2018, this electronic-only Bible is based on English 2015 edition of the
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
'' Produced and published by
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The group reports a worldwide membership of approximately 8.7 million adherents involved in ...
. The Bible of CEI (Conferenza Episcopale Italiana) is the official version of the Italian Catholic Church. It was first printed in 1971 (editio princeps) as the work of only three translators in order to keep the text more consistent, and revised in 1974 (editio minor). A totally new version, published in 2008, after a revision of both the Testaments, that took into account newly discovered documents for the New Testament, was begun in 1997. Both the editions of ''La Bibbia di Gerusalemme'' (the Italian ''
Jerusalem Bible ''The Jerusalem Bible'' (JB or TJB) is an English translation of the Bible published in 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd. As a Catholic Bible, it includes 73 books: the 39 books shared with the Hebrew Bible, along with the seven deuterocanonical ...
'') are notable for their introductions and footnotes, translated from the French original, but use texts from the CEI editions.


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References

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External links


Bible Malermi (1487) digitalized



online text of the CEI-2008 Bible


* ttp://www.bibbiaedu.it online texts of various translations, including the 1974 and 2008 CEI Biblesbr>Traduzione del Nuovo Mondo (edizione per lo studio)
- New World Translation (Study Edition) Italian Italian literature