Editing Louis Maracci

[[Image:Marracci.jpg|thumb|Ludovico Marracci]]
'''Louis (or Ludovico) Maracci''' ([[1612 AD|1612]]-[[1700 AD|1700]]), best known by name '''Lewis Maracci''', was an [[Italians|Italian]] [[Oriental studies|Oriental]] scholar and professor of [[Arabic]] in the [[Sapienza University of Rome|College of Wisdom]] at [[Rome]].<sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup><sup>[3]</sup><sup>[4]</sup>

He is chiefly known as the publisher and editor of [[Quran]] of [[Muhammad]] in Arabic. He is also well known for translating Quran in [[Latin]], editing an Arabic [[Bible]] translation, and numerous other works.
<sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup><sup>[3]</sup><sup>[5]</sup>

==Biography==
He was born at [[Lucca]] in [[1612|1612]]. He had become a member of the [[Clerks Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca]] and learnt with reputed success in the study of the [[Oriental languages|Eastern languages]], especially the [[Arabic]]. He was the [[Confessor]] of [[Pope Innocent XI]]. Pope appointed him as the professor of Arabic in the ''College of Wisdom'' - [[Sapienza University of Rome]] (in'' ''[[Italian language|Italian]],'' sapienza ''means wisdom), for his proficiency in that language. He later declined the promotion of being appointed as [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]]. He died at an age of 88 in [[1700 AD|1700]].<sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>

==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>

==References==
* 1. Aikin, John; Thomas Morgan; William Johnston; William Enfield; Mr. Nicholson (1807). [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=XEUDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA533&lpg=PA533&dq=Maracci+Lewis&source=bl&ots=j7ssOTy7oP&sig=JAjaprqrNp4yKYZhebQqIAD3las&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SYwxT82hPMXTrQfpjuGjBA&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Maracci%20Lewis&f=false|General biography:or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order, Volume 6 (Google eBook)]. T.Davison, White-friars.
* 2. Gorton, John (1828). [A general biographical dictionary:containing a summary account of the lives of eminent persons of all nations, Volume 2, [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Jm89AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA416&lpg=PA416&dq=Maracci+Lewis&source=bl&ots=gFywvKV-eM&sig=Cc9QcifofxBGMt0BJF9nF4gK5tc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SYwxT82hPMXTrQfpjuGjBA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Maracci%20Lewis&f=false| Part 1 (Google eBook)]. Hunt & Clarke.
* 3. Thomas Joseph Pettigrew; Augustus Frederick (Duke of Sussex) (1839). [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Jm89AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA416&lpg=PA416&dq=Maracci+Lewis&source=bl&ots=gFywvKV-eM&sig=Cc9QcifofxBGMt0BJF9nF4gK5tc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SYwxT82hPMXTrQfpjuGjBA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Maracci%20Lewis&f=false| Bibliotheca Sussexiana]:. Longman & co.
* 4. Mills, Charles (1818). [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=BJNMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA286&lpg=PA286&dq=Lewis+Maracci&source=bl&ots=mNq4mVvrSC&sig=emjQ32fFWfvZcqcX0_Q80YKw6Lc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pIkyT8PzN82qrAf7u72aBA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Lewis%20Maracci&f=false|On history on Muhammedanism]. Kingsbury.
* 5. Hyamson, Albert M. (1995). [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=9y8LrtmeJwcC&pg=PA406&lpg=PA406&dq=Maracci+Lewis&source=bl&ots=UeSeGjx1_k&sig=WLKyvqpro4j1osHKiT4mlWwP_Is&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SYwxT82hPMXTrQfpjuGjBA&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Maracci%20Lewis&f=false|A Dictionary of Universal Biography]:. Genealogical Publishing Com.
* 6. [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=a4RJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA261&lpg=PA261&dq=Lewis+Maracci&source=bl&ots=-can-QMnFp&sig=NfNMuJtFCMi-eltNG5UHpE3rdGk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pIkyT8PzN82qrAf7u72aBA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Lewis%20Maracci&f=false|The Methodist Review, Volume 5; Volume 16]. B. Waugh and T.Mason. 1834. Retrieved February 8, 2012. An edition of Arabic Bible - superintended by Abram Ecchellensis and Lewis Maracci
* 7. Lodovico, Muhammad (1698). [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=xLJEAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false|Alcorani Textus Universus]. Typographia Seminarii. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
* 8. [http://digital.library.ksu.edu.sa/V2M28R2183.pdf|George Sales translation (1743)]
* 9. [http://bahai-library.com/troxel_islam_bahai_guide|One of the first English translations of the Qur'án was done by George Sale in 1734 using Maracci's Latin work]
* 10. [http://www.riley-smith.com/hamish/document_view.php?cat=1&doc=106&catname=Rare%20Books|George Sale (1697-1736) was much influenced by Ludovico Maracci’s edition in arabic and latin printed in Padua in 1698]
* 11. Sale, George (1821). [http://books.google.co.in/books/about/The_Koran.html?id=mLPUAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y|The Koran:commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed]. Scarcherd an Letterman.
* 12. [http://www.cairchicago.org/doc/thomas_jefferson_quran.pdf|Thomas Jefferson purchased a copy of the Qur'an, specifically, George Sale's English translation, The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed]

==External links==
* [https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/quran/qurans/item/6131 The Quran in East and West: Manuscripts and Printed Books]
* [http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=100806 Alcorani Textus Universus]
* [http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1928&chapter=119404layout=html&Itemid=27 SALE’S PREFACE TO THE PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE AND TRANSLATION. - Mohammed, The Quran, vol. 1 - 1896 - Father Lewis Marracci, who had been confessor to Pope InnocentXI]
* [http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/polyglots/maracci.html Ludovico Maracci]
* [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=TN8oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA276&lpg=PA276&dq=Lewis+Maracci&source=bl&ots=OY1uOgSglF&sig=ToMdu1SOJA9JeMrL2RWD6WtFKgY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pIkyT8PzN82qrAf7u72aBA&ved=0CEEQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Lewis%20Maracci&f=false The history of Arabia - by Andrew Crichton - p.277-278]

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