Talk:Giovanni Diodati

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Greetings. Some of the text in this Diodati article is inaccurate and doesn't even make good sense within itself, which is why I attempted to change it. (1.) He was not the first person to translate the Bible into Italian from Hebrew and Greek. Brucioli did it in 1530-32 and Rustici's 1562 edition edited Brucioli's work. Some have argued that Diodati was the first to do it from only Hebrew and Greek. But that is not true either. Diodati himself talks about Latin, Syriac, and the LXX in his footnotes. (2.) He did not become the professor of theology in 1606 or 1609. The phrase "and in the following year he succeeded Beza as professor of theology" is either repetitious or just wrong. The article already says he became professor in 1606. In actuality, Registres de la Compagnie des Pasteurs VII 1595-1599 says that he became professor of theology in 1599. (3.) "Annotationes in Biblia (1607)" is not one of his works, it is simply a reference to the footnotes in his 1607 Bible. There exists no such independently printed work. (4.) His Bible was not printed in 1603. He presented the Company of Pastors with the desire to print his Bible in 1603, but nothing was printed until 1607. (5.) His first edition of Pious and Learned Annotations upon the Holy Bible were printed in 1643 not 1648. There is an edition in 1648, but there were also 2 more printed afterwards. (6.) All of the treatises mentioned were simply student theses when Diodati was the overseeing professor, not polemical treatises printed by Diodati. I could go through and list resources for each quote, or list my own article as a resource, but I have done the research myself. You can reference the Italian Wikipedia page for most of these details.93.41.123.186 (talk) 20:04, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
 * If you are a specialist of the subject, there is in my opinion no objection at all for you to cite your own articles, provided of course your research work was published in a recognized peer-reviewed journal you can cite as a source, with precise inline citations including pagination. If it is the case I even encourage you to do it. What is most important is the reliability of the source, not who the wikipedia contributor is. Sapphorain (talk) 21:11, 18 January 2020 (UTC)