Editing Louis Maracci (section)

==Contributions==
He has considerable share in editing the Roman edition of ''Arabic Bible'', published at Rome in 1671, in three volumes. For this, the [[Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples]] appointed [[Abraham Ecchellensis]] and Maracci Lewis to undertake the revision of the edition to make it exactly, correspond with the [[Vulgate]]. Maracci wrote a new preface and made a list of errors of the former copy in 1668.<sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup><sup>[3]</sup><sup>[6]</sup>

He acquired much celebrity in editing and publishing [[Quran]] in Arabic and translating that into Latin - ''Alcorani Textus Universus Arabicè et Latinè'', in two volumes, at [[Padua]] in 1698. His version of Quran included a life of ''Mahomet'', with notes, and refutations of ''Mahometan'' doctrines.<sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup><sup>[7]</sup> It was the result of ''forty'' years of labour and toilsome research of the [[Benedictine|Benedictine monks]].<sup>[4]</sup>

[[George Sale]]'s [[English translations of the Quran]] - ''The Koran'', commonly called, ''The Alcoran of Mohammed'' -, in 1736, was done based on Maracci's Latin version of Quran in 1698.<sup>[8]</sup><sup>[9]</sup><sup>[10]</sup><sup>[11]</sup><sup>[12]</sup>

He also authored ''The Life of Father [[John Leonardi|Leonardi]]'', the founder of his congregation - [[Clerks Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca]], and many more.<sup>[1]</sup>