Ludovico, a learned Italian, who was born at Lucca in Tuscany in 1612. He applied himself principally to the study of languages, especially Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldee, and Arabic, which last he taught for some time at Rome. Pope Innocent XI chose him as his confessor, placed great confidence in him, and would have advanced him to ecclesiastical dignities if Marracci had not opposed it. Marracci died at Rome in 1700, aged eighty-seven. The great work upon which his reputation chiefly rests is his edition of the Koran in the original Arabic, with a Latin version under the title of Alcorani Textus universus ex correctionibus Arabum exemplaribus summa fide atque pulcherissimi characteribus descriptus, Padua, 1698, in 2 vols. folio; the first contains the Prodomus, and the second the Koran, with critical and grammatical notes, which are highly esteemed. The version of the Koran by Marracci, with notes and observations by himself and others, and a synopsis of Mohammedan religion, by way of introduction, was published by Heineccius at Leipzig, 1721, in 8vo. Marracci had also a hand in the Biblia Sacra Arabica Sacra Congregationis de Propaganda Fide jussu edita, ad usum Ecclesiarum Orientalem, Rome, 1671, in 3 vols. folio.