Translations

  • Bible

  • Translation Title: Biblia sacra Arabica Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide ivssv edita ad vsum Ecclesiarum Orientalium
  • Original Author:
  • Original title: Bible
  • lang: Hebrew
  • Translation: Biblia sacra Arabica Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide ivssv edita ad vsum Ecclesiarum Orientalium
  • Publisher: Sacræ Congregat. de Propaganda Fide
  • Pub. Place: Rome
  • Pub. Date: 1671
  • Lang: Latin and Arabic
  • Note:

    Marracci was responsible for the corrections and revisions on the first draft of the translation.

    Although ready in 1650, this bilingual bible was not published until 1671, due to a controversy regarding its sources: a party inside the committee appointed to prepare the Arabic version supported the usage of the official Vulgate of the text, while other members insisted that the traditional Arabic versions already known to Levantine Christians should constitute the basis of some passages (Bevilacqua 2013).

  • Qur'an

  • Translation Title: Alcorani textus universus ex correctioribus Arabum exemplaribus
  • Original title: Qur'an
  • lang: Arabic
  • Translation: Alcorani textus universus ex correctioribus Arabum exemplaribus
  • Publisher: Typographia Seminaria
  • Pub. Place: Padua
  • Pub. Date: 1698
  • Lang: Latin
  • Note:

    Marracci's

    Qur'an

    includes the

    Prodromus ad refutationem Alcorani

    (separately printed in 1691 in Rome) as its first volume, and the

    Refutatio Alcorani

    , a second volume containing the Latin translation with the parallel Arabic text, together with Marracci's commentaries and notes.


    Although Marracci had finished his translation by 1682, he was denied the permission to use the Arabic press of the Propaganda Fide, given the congregation's recenty history with banned publications related to Islam.

    Eventually, Marracci managed to use the Oriental press established in the seminary of Padua by Cardinal Gregorio Barbarigo, after gathering the fonts from all across Italy (Bevilacqua, 2013).

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By:

  • Giovanni Lista