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Giovanni Diodati (1576 - 1649)

Italian Calvinist theologian and translator of the Bible into Italian from Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Syriac. His Pious annotations, upon the Holy Bible expounding the difficult places thereof learnedly, and plainly was published London in 1643, with a second edition in 1648. Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Diodati Relevant locations: Birth place in Geneva, Romandy
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Diodati's Annotations upon the Holy Bible, expounding the difficult Places, 2d Edit. 1648. Lond. 4to. delicately bound, painted and gilt, with the Lord Fairfax's Arms, &c. being perhaps a Present to the General. But this, and those commonly called the Assemblies Annotations upon the Bible, in 2 Vol Fol. scarce come within the Design of this Catalogue, not having the Words of the Text entire, and continued. I say commonly called the Assemblies, but it is most certain that many Episcopal Divines, as Bishop Richardson, Dr. Featly, &c. had their Parts therein, as appears by a List of the Authors transmitted to me, An. 1696, by the Learned Dr. Sampson, a Person of Learning and Curiosity, and particularly knowing in those Affairs.