Question by Anna: Trying to find Italian “Holy Bible” & children books on www.bol.it (I can barely understand Italian language!)
Quick background for anyone reading this wondering what the heck I’m trying to do. To improve my reading/writing/comprehension language skills, I enjoy translating various pieces of literature until I’m familliar.

http://www.bol.it is an online bookstore, and I have to translate word for word and I’m beginning to get quite confused.

I am searching for an italian language equivilant to something along the lines of the King James Version of the Holy Bible (old testament aka “hebrew bible”, and the new testament). Due to my non-fluent problems, I can’t figure out which books are about the bible (opinions etc) and which book is the actual equivalent to an old testament + new testament bible.

Can someone who understands please visit the website and locate for me a title and an EAN of the book I’m looking for?

(I am also game for contemporary interesting children’s books in italian… I would appreciate any titles of fun kid books to buy and translate!)

Thank you!!!

Best answer:

Answer by lovely green eyes
What you want to be looking for is “antico testamento” for “old bible” and nuovo testamento or vangelo for the most recent one.

I am not religious, so I can’t help you choosing among all the titles (I never read them), but I hope that you can navigate through this search (hope it works):

http://www.bol.it/libri/ricerca;jsessionid=05E6B71FF089C5EE4BB0341605345744

There is also a Bible for children:

http://www.bol.it/libri/scheda/ea978882155423.html

As well as all these books (not related to the Bible):

http://www.bol.it/libri/sottogenere?id=000092&sgen=N.02

I have a question: how are you planning to translate these books if you are not fluent in Italian? I am Italian mother tongue and fluent in French English and Spanish, but I would find it difficult to translate a book!

Anyway, thanks for the link: I needed an online shop for Italian books!!

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