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	Nicolò (Nicholas) Malermi (Malerba, Manerba) was born in Venice about 1422. He entered the Camaldolese Order (ca. [[1470 AD\|1470]]), quite late in his life, when he was 48 years old. In [[1480 AD\|1480]] he was appointed abbot of St. Michele di Lemo, at Class near Ravenna. The following year he became the superior of San Mattia in Murano, near Venice.		Nicolò (Nicholas) Malermi (Malerba, Manerba) was born in Venice about 1422. He entered the Camaldolese Order (ca. [[1470 AD\|1470]]), quite late in his life, when he was 48 years old. In [[1480 AD\|1480]] he was appointed abbot of St. Michele di Lemo, at Class near Ravenna. The following year he became the superior of San Mattia in Murano, near Venice.

	The greatest accomplishment of Malermi was in [[1471 AD\|1471]] his translation of the Bible, the so-called [[Malermi Bible]], including the OT Apocrypha. It was the first printed translation of the [[Bible translations into Italian\|Bible into Italian]], based on the [[Latin]] text. The author (and his collaborators, Lorenzo da Venezia and Girolamo Squarciafico) completed the translation in eight months, in some cases using and adapting some previous fourteenth-century translations, even if at the expense of literary quality.<sup>[1]</sup> Malermi also wrote a History (now lost) of the Murano monastery and, in Italian, ''The Lives of all saints'' (some composed by Malermi, some in collaboration with [[Girolamo Squarciafico]]; Venice [[1475\|1475]]).		The greatest accomplishment of Malermi was in [[1471 AD\|1471]] his translation of the Bible, the so-called [[Malermi Bible]], including the OT Apocrypha. It was the first printed translation of the [[Bible translations into Italian\|Bible into Italian]], based on the [[Latin]] text. The author (and his collaborators, Lorenzo da Venezia and Girolamo Squarciafico) completed the translation in eight months, in some cases using and adapting some previous fourteenth-century translations, even if at the expense of literary quality.<sup>[1]</sup> Malermi also wrote a History (now lost) of the Murano monastery and, in [[Italian]], ''The Lives of all saints'' (some composed by Malermi, some in collaboration with [[Girolamo Squarciafico]]; Venice [[1475\|1475]]).

	Malermi died in [[1481\|1481]] in Venice. An 18th-century portrait of Malermi is at the [[Biblioteca Classense]] in Ravenna.		Malermi died in [[1481\|1481]] in Venice. An 18th-century portrait of Malermi is at the [[Biblioteca Classense]] in Ravenna.

			==See Also==
			* [[Bible translations into Italian]]

	==References==		==References==

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	'''Nicolò Malermi''' (c. [[1422 AD\|1422]] - [[1481\|1481]]) was an [[Italian people\|Italian]] Biblical scholar. He was the first translator of the [[Bible translations into Italian\|Bible into Italian]] from the Latin text.		'''Nicolò Malermi''' (c. [[1422 AD\|1422]] - [[1481\|1481]]) was an [[Italian people\|Italian]] Biblical scholar. He was the first translator of the [[Bible translations into Italian\|Bible into Italian]] from the [[Latin]] text.

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'''Nicolò Malermi''' (c. [[1422 AD|1422]] - [[1481|1481]]) was an [[Italian people|Italian]] Biblical scholar. He was the first translator of the [[Bible translations into Italian|Bible into Italian]] from the Latin text.

==Life==

Nicolò (Nicholas) Malermi (Malerba, Manerba) was born in Venice about 1422. He entered the Camaldolese Order (ca. [[1470 AD|1470]]), quite late in his life, when he was 48 years old. In [[1480 AD|1480]] he was appointed abbot of St. Michele di Lemo, at Class near Ravenna. The following year he became the superior of San Mattia in Murano, near Venice.

The greatest accomplishment of Malermi was in [[1471 AD|1471]] his translation of the Bible, the so-called [[Malermi Bible]], including the OT Apocrypha. It was the first printed translation of the [[Bible translations into Italian|Bible into Italian]], based on the [[Latin]] text. The author (and his collaborators, Lorenzo da Venezia and Girolamo Squarciafico) completed the translation in eight months, in some cases using and adapting some previous fourteenth-century translations, even if at the expense of literary quality.<sup>[1]</sup> Malermi also wrote a History (now lost) of the Murano monastery and, in Italian, ''The Lives of all saints'' (some composed by Malermi, some in collaboration with [[Girolamo Squarciafico]]; Venice [[1475|1475]]).

Malermi died in [[1481|1481]] in Venice. An 18th-century portrait of Malermi is at the [[Biblioteca Classense]] in Ravenna.

==References==
* 1. [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/nicolo-malerbi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Treccani.it]

*Girolamo Tiraboschi, ''History of Italian literature'' VI-1 (Venice 1795), 287-289.
*Edoardo Barbieri, "La fortuna della Bibbia vulgarizzata di Niccolò Malerbi," in «Aevum» 53.2 (1989), 419-500
*Edoardo Barbieri, [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/nicolo-malerbi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ "Malerbi, Nicolo"], in ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', vol. 68 (2007)

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	==See Also==		==See Also==
	* [[Bible translations into Italian]]		* [[Bible translations into Italian]]
			* [[Antonio Brucioli]]

	==References==		==References==