Italian translator

We deliver Standard Italian (it-IT) by default, to the norm of the Accademia della Crusca in Florence. Swiss Italian (it-CH), with German and French loanwords, is available for Ticino and Italian-speaking Graubünden. We confirm the variant in the quote based on your target market, and hold to a single variant across the document so terminology stays consistent.

The UK has no sworn-translator institute, so there is no "sworn translator" as a legal office here. For official acceptance our Italian translation agency provides certified translation: a signed and dated statement of accuracy from the translator or the agency, with our contact details. Where a body asks for more, this can be escalated to notarisation by a solicitor or notary public, or to an apostille or legalisation through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). For use in Italy itself, an Italian court (Tribunale) administers an asseverazione (giuramento) where required. We confirm in the quote which level your receiving authority needs.

We work with native specialist translators and reference the recognised UK professional bodies — the ITI (Institute of Translation and Interpreting), the CIOL (Chartered Institute of Linguists) and, for interpreting, the NRPSI (National Register of Public Service Interpreters). These are bodies of reference for the profession; we name them so you can see the standard the work is held to.

Common cases include product catalogues and webshop content for fashion and food, distribution and employment contracts, annual reports, technical manuals for the automotive and manufacturing sectors, and personal documents such as birth certificates, diplomas, transcripts and corporate extracts. UK-specific cases we handle often are Home Office and UKVI immigration documents, university admissions assessed by UK ENIC, and HMCTS court documents. We confirm the approach and any certification per document in the quote.

On working days you receive a quote within 1 hour. The lead time for the translation itself depends on document type, volume, language pair and any required certification, and is confirmed in the quote. For tight deadlines we confirm a workable rush schedule up front rather than promising a fixed turnaround.

We combine native specialist translators with a structured QA layer: a terminology list, a style guide and a second review where the legal field, risk profile or volume requires it. CAT tools (Trados, memoQ, Phrase TMS) keep terminology consistent across volume and repeated content, and help hold false friends such as "morbido" or "fattoria" in check. A translation memory keeps follow-up work aligned and lowers the cost over time.

For legal Italian translation — contracts, judgments, articles of association, notarial deeds — we pair you with a translator who has a legal background and match terminology to the Codice Civile and Italian procedural law, where role definitions differ from English law. Our legal-translation page goes deeper into certification and the closing statement of accuracy. See [legal translation](/en/services/legal-translation/).

An Italian translation agency takes the coordination off your hands. We select the specialist who fits your document and sector, arrange certification, notarisation or legalisation where an authority requires it, and have the work checked by a second reviewer. You keep one point of contact for variant, terminology, scheduling and delivery — whether it is a fashion catalogue or a notarial deed — all under a single quote. A skilled freelance translator does excellent work too; the difference an agency adds is bringing those moving parts together so you are not managing them separately.