biography
| name: |
Reina, Casiodoro de
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pronunciation:
[rayeena]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1520–c.84)
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| biography:
| Translator of the ‘Bear’ Bible (1569), born in Granada, S Spain, of Moorish descent. The Bible is named after the emblem of a bear tasting honey on the title-page, which has been traced to the Bavarian printer Mattias Apiarius, ‘the bee-keeper’. Reina turned Protestant and fled from Spain in 1557, spending the next 12 years on the first complete translation of the Bible into Castilian, La Biblia, que es, los sacros libros del Viejo y Nuevo Testamento. Trasladada en Español. It was revised in 1602 by Cipriano de Varela, and the 1569 edition was reissued in facsimile by the Bible Society of Madrid (1970). Menéndez y Pelayo was the first scholar to stress Reina's achievement in his Historia de los heterodoxos españoles (Vol 5, 1882). |
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