[Giovanni Giacinto]. Italian Protestant translator of the New Testament. Born in Viterbo in 1803, he was educated for the ministry and entered the order of Dominicans. In 1839 he became a convert to Protestantism and issued the version of the New Testament with which his name is generally associated. This has been regarded as the best version in the Italian language. Visiting England on a lecturing tour in 1852, he became involved in a lawsuit with Cardinal Newman, whom he sued for slander. In his later years he was appointed Italian professor in the English college at Malta.
