Antonio Sandini (30 June 1692 – 23 February 1751,

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, Italy) was an Italian ecclesiastical historian. Through the interest of his

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Rezzonico (later

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), Sandini became a

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and

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of ecclesiastical history at

. He is known principally by his ''Vitae Pontificum Romanorum'' (Ferrara, 1748; reprinted under the title ''Basis Historiae Ecclesiasticae'')''.'' He also wrote ''Historiae Familiae Sacrae'', ''Hist. SS. Apostolorum'', ''Disputationes XX ex. Hist. Eccles.'', and ''Dissertations in Defence of his Hist. Fam. Sac.''

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