CONCLUSIÓN

Abstract

The history of Italian translations of the Book of Common Prayer is a story of failure—or rather, of a series of interconnected failures that stretched over a period of almost three hundred years, starting from the failure of Wotton and Bedell’s seventeenth-century project to foster a schism in the Venetian Church. The subsequent failure of the Anglican missionary societies in their nineteenth-century project to support the transformation of the Catholic Church in accordance with the Anglican model erased the memory of these attempts. These events serve, however, as an exemplary illustration of the nature of English relations with Italy and the Catholic world in general.