Another man who published a version of the Bible in Venice was Antonio Brucioli. He was a humanist with Protestant leanings, but he never broke away from the Catholic Church. In 1532, Brucioli published the Bible that he translated from the original Hebrew and Greek. This was the first Bible to be translated from the original texts into Italian. Though not in fine literary Italian, the translation’s faithfulness to the original texts is remarkable, given the knowledge of ancient languages in those days. In some places and editions, Brucioli restored God’s name in the form “Ieova.” For nearly a century, his Bible was very popular among Italian Protestants and religious dissidents.

Other Italian translations​—in reality revisions of Brucioli’s Bible—​were published, some by Catholics. None of them achieved any notable circulation.

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Brucioli’s translation used the divine name Ieova in its text