diff --git a/libretranslate/app.py b/libretranslate/app.py
index 73be457..52e818f 100644
--- a/libretranslate/app.py
+++ b/libretranslate/app.py
@@ -1022,6 +1022,9 @@ def create_app(args):
         # TODO: populate from available locales
         return request.accept_languages.best_match(['en', 'it'])
 
+    def gettext_escaped(*args, **kwargs):
+      return _(*args, **kwargs).replace("'", "\\'")
+    app.jinja_env.globals.update(_e=gettext_escaped)
 
     # Call factory function to create our blueprint
     swaggerui_blueprint = get_swaggerui_blueprint(SWAGGER_URL, API_URL)
diff --git a/libretranslate/templates/app.js.template b/libretranslate/templates/app.js.template
index 1c61fa1..57dde04 100644
--- a/libretranslate/templates/app.js.template
+++ b/libretranslate/templates/app.js.template
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){
             
             detectedLangText: "",
 
-            copyTextLabel: {{ _("Copy text") }},
+            copyTextLabel: '{{ _e("Copy text") }}',
 
             suggestions: false,
             isSuggesting: false,
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){
                         }
                     }
                 } else {
-                    self.error = "Cannot load /frontend/settings";
+                    self.error = '{{ _e("Cannot load %(url)s", url="/frontend/settings") }}';
                     self.loading = false;
                 }
             };
diff --git a/libretranslate/translations/it/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po b/libretranslate/translations/it/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c65540
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libretranslate/translations/it/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Italian translations for PROJECT.
+# Copyright (C) 2023 ORGANIZATION
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PROJECT project.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, 2023.
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PROJECT VERSION\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: EMAIL@ADDRESS\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2023-01-04 12:27-0500\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2023-01-04 12:27-0500\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language: it\n"
+"Language-Team: it <LL@li.org>\n"
+"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Generated-By: Babel 2.11.0\n"
+
+#: libretranslate/app.py:57
+msgid "Invalid JSON format"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: libretranslate/app.py:125
+msgid "Auto Detect"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: libretranslate/templates/app.js.template:31
+msgid "Copy text"
+msgstr "Copia testo"
+
+#: libretranslate/templates/app.js.template:72
+#, python-format
+msgid "Cannot load %(url)s"
+msgstr "Impossibile caricare' %(url)s"
+
+#: libretranslate/templates/index.html:6
+msgid "Free and Open Source Machine Translation API"
+msgstr "API di traduzione automatica open source"
+