Pietro Lauro (1544) — Italian DEH

Pietro Lauro’s Italian translation of De excidio Hierosolymitano was printed at Venice by Michel Tramezino in 1544, under the title Historia d’Egesippo. The printed title describes it as translated from Latin into Italian.

Edition

Historia d’Egesippo tra i christiani scrittori antichissimo de le valorose imprese fatte da giudei ne l’assedio di Gierusaleme…, trans. Pietro Lauro (Venice: Michel Tramezino, 1544). EDIT16 CNCE 35123.

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Bibliographic records

Comparison with the English translation

Comparison with Lauro’s Italian translation of 1544 led to three revisions of our English, two adopting his interpretation. Across 216 Ussani sections, the audit recorded 308 cases where his rendering was judged less persuasive or freer, together with six further cases warranting reconsideration of our English.

Reading Lauro

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The reader presents the corrected transcription of Lauro’s Italian translation of 1544. All 558 numbered Ussani passages, including the Prologue, have recorded correspondences. Lauro’s 175 printed chapters remain independent of Ussani’s divisions. The modern Latin edition supplies the navigation framework; the correspondence does not establish Lauro’s Latin exemplar or imply word-for-word equivalence.

Enable Italian in the reader controls. Settings in the Italian pane offers the current Ussani reading view, the complete book, source lines, Lauro’s own chapters and individual folios. Correspondence explains the selected mapping. Link preserves the view and selection. Latin, English and Millet’s French remain independently available.

Transcription and editorial conventions

Historical spelling, accents, abbreviations, ß and the line-break marker ¬ remain in the source data. Long s is displayed as ordinary s throughout the reader; the downloadable data retain the original characters. The flowing reading view joins physical word breaks for display only. Source lines and Folio show the physical line divisions and break markers.

On f. 137r, apprestos[si] includes an editorially supplied ending. The brackets distinguish the supplied letters. Original readings and all 199 saved editorial decisions remain recoverable in the project’s audit checkpoints.

Folio labels count each recto and verso separately: image 1 is f. 1r, image 2 is f. 1v, image 3 is f. 2r, and image 417 is f. 209r.

Source matter outside the translated narrative is retained separately from the aligned running text. Deferred geometry proposals have not been treated as textual corrections or approved field revisions. Images 418–438 are outside this text’s scope.

Transcription provenance

The transcription incorporates the accepted source correction pass and the source-authenticated rebase of all 558 correspondences, released in the reader on 31 October 2026. The comparison with Pollard English version 1.1 led to three approved revisions and three comparison notes in version 1.2; the translation history records the decisions.

Source and alignment provenance · Book catalogue · Editorial qualification · Preserved non-running apparatus.