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Daniele Farlati (22 February 1690 – 25 April 1773) was an ecclesiastical historian.
Farlati was born in
San Daniele del Friuli
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in the present
Italian
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province of
Udine
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. After having studied in
Gorizia
Gorizia (; sl, Gorica , colloquially 'old Gorizia' to distinguish it from Nova Gorica; fur, label= Standard Friulian, Gurize, fur, label= Southeastern Friulian, Guriza; vec, label= Bisiacco, Gorisia; german: Görz ; obsolete English ''Gorit ...
he entered, in 1707, the
Society of Jesus
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in
Bologna
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. He was for five years teacher of classics at the Jesuit college in
Padua
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, and then went to
Rome
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, where he completed his theological studies, was ordained priest, in 1722, and was again sent to Padua, to assist Father
Filippo Riceputi in his historical labours.
Riceputi intended to write the ecclesiastical history of
Illyricum, and in 1720 had issued, at Padua, a prospectus of this enterprise. For twenty years they both searched in all the libraries and archives of ancient Illyria for the material for their work; the matter they collected filled three hundred manuscript volumes. In 1712, just as two of the larger divisions, the
martyrology
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of Illyria and the life of
San Pietro Orseolo, were about completed, Riceputi died. Thus Farlati was left alone to work into presentable shape the prodigious amount of material collected. As co-labourer he chose Father Jacopo Coleti. The first volume of ''
Illyricum Sacrum'' appeared in Venice, in 1751; it contained the history of the Church Salona up to the fourth century. Three further volumes appeared in rapid succession; while the fifth was in press Farlati died. His assistant Coletti finished the fifth volume, which appeared in 1775, and issued three more, the last being completed in 1818. The whole work fills eight
folio
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volumes.
References
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1690 births
1773 deaths
18th-century Italian Jesuits
Italian historians of religion
18th-century Venetian historians
University of Padua alumni
People from Udine
Historians of the Balkans