Bible Translations into Italian
Translations of the Bible into Italian language have appeared since the 15th century.
Overview
1471 -- At the end of the 15th century, the first printed Italian Bible, from the Latin Vulgate, included the OT Apocrypha; see Bibbia (1471 Malermi), book. The author was Nicolò Malermi, a member of the Camaldolese Order. It was the second known translation of the Bible in a modern language, after the German edition by Johannes Mentelin in 1466. Malermi used and adapted previous fourteenth-century translations, even if at the expense of literary quality.
1530-32 -- In 1530-32, Antonio Brucioli's Italian translation was the first translation of the Bible in modern language to openly reject the authority of the Vulgate; see Il Nuovo Testamento (1530 Brucioli), book and La Biblia (1532 Brucioli), book. Brucioli claimed he translated the entire Bible in Italian from the original languages (Hebrew and Greek), and in Venice was assisted by the Jewish scholar Elijah Levita. In reality, his version of the Old Testament followed very closely more the Latin translation by Sante Pagnini than the Hebrew text, and his version of the New Testament was based on the Latin translation by Erasmus (1516).
1538 -- Although claiming to be a new Italian translation, the work of Santi Marmochino in 1538 was, for the Old Testament, little more than a stylistic revision of La Biblia (1532 Brucioli), book, and for the New Testament, a mere reprint of Il Nuovo Testamento (1536 Zaccaria), book.
1559-67 -- In 1559 Paul IV (as well as his successor Pius IV in 1564) proscribed all printing and reading of the vernacular Scriptures except by permission of the church. Although the Malerbi Bible got such authorization in 1567, the policy of the Church effectively stopped further Catholic translations for the next 200 years, until the publication of La Sacra Bibbia (1769-1781 Martini), book.
1603 -- First translation of the Christian Bible into Italian directly from the original texts (Hebrew and Greek); see La Bibbia (1603 Diodati), book.
1769-81 -- La Sacra Bibbia (1769-1781 Martini), book
1921-30 -- La Bibbia (1921-1930 Luzzi), book
1931 -- La Sacra Bibbia (1931 Sales), book
1931 -- La Sacra Bibbia (1931 Tintori), book
1947-82 -- La Sacra Bibbia (1947=1982 Marietti), book series
1967-80 -- Nuovissima versione della Bibbia dai testi originali (1967-1980 Paoline), book series