Editing Ambrose Traversari (section)

==Works==
His works include a treatise on the Holy [[Eucharist]], one on the [[Trinity (Christianity)#Eternal generation and procession|Procession of the Holy Spirit]], many lives of saints, as well as a history of his term as prior general of the Camaldolese. He also translated from [[Greek language|Greek]] into [[Latin]] a life of [[John Chrysostom]] ([[Venice]], 1533); the ''Spiritual Wisdom'' of [[Joannes Moschus|John Moschus]]; ''[[The Ladder of Divine Ascent]]'' of [[John Climacus]] (Venice, 1531), P.G., LXXXVIII.{{sfn|Becket|1913}}  Between 1424 and 1433 he worked on the translation of the ''[[Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers]]'' by [[Diogenes Laërtius]], which came to be widely circulated in manuscript form. He also translated four books against the errors of the Greeks, by [[Manuel Kalekas]], [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|Patriarch of Constantinople]], a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] [[friar]] ([[Ingolstadt]], 1608), P.G., CLII, col. 13-661, a work known only through Ambrose's translation.

He also translated many homilies of John Chrysostom; the writings of Dionysius Areopagita (1436);<ref>In his 1498 edition of these works, Jacques LeFèvre d’Étaples praised them as “The most holy works of the divine Dionysius the Areopagite, of such worth and excellence that no praise in words can hope to equal” (sacratissima opera tanta excellentie dignitate eminentia ut commendationis eorum nullus unquam verbis valeat assequi summam) Jacobus Faber Stapulensis piis lectoribus, ''Theologia Vivificans; cibus solidus'', 1498. [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k543103.r=%22Theologia%20Vivificans%2C%20cibus%20solidus%22?rk=42918;4]</ref> [[Basil of Caesarea]]'s treatise on [[virginity]]; thirty-nine discourses of [[Ephrem the Syrian]], and many other works of the [[Fathers of the Church|Fathers]] and writers of the [[Greek Orthodox Church|Greek Church]]. [[Jean Mabillon]]'s ''Letters and Orations of St. Ambrose of Camaldoli'' was published in Florence in 1759.{{sfn|Becket|1913}}

Selected works:
*''Hodoeporicon'', diary of a journey visiting the monasteries of Italy<ref name=Drane>[https://archive.org/details/christianschool00drangoog/page/n574 <!-- pg=602 quote=Ambrose Traversari. --> Drane, Augusta Theodosia. ''Christian Schools and Scholars'', Burns and Oates, 1881, p. 602]</ref>
*''Epistolarium'', correspondence<ref name=Drane/>
*translations of
**[[Palladius of Galatia|Palladius]], ''Life of Chrysostom''
**[[Ephraem Syrus]], ''Nineteen Sermons of Ephraem Syrus''
**[[Basil of Caesarea]], ''On Virginity''
**[[Diogenes Laërtius]], ''Vitae philosophorum'' (''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'')<ref>[http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/chklst/chkbyw.htm Diogenes Laertius]</ref>
**[[Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite]] (1436){{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

A number of his manuscripts remain in the library of Saint Mark in Venice.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}