Nicolò Malermi

The next year, he translated the Bible into Italian, in the hermitage of San Matteo, on a little island near Murano in the Venetian lagoon.

In 1477 he was appointed abbot of San Michele di Leme near Lim Bay in present-day Croatia, an area then under Venetian rule.

The monastery is located between towns of Poreč (Parenzo) and Rovinj (Rovigno) and had been placed under the primacy of San Michele in Isola in 1394.

Three years later, in 1480, Malermi was living in s Camaldolese monastery in Classe, near Ravenna, a historically important town on Italy's Adriatic coast which was also controlled by Venice in the 15th century.

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.