Daniele Farlati

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Daniele Farlati (born February 22, 1690 in San Daniele del Friuli , † April 25, 1773 in Padua ) was a church historian and Jesuit . His best-known work is Illyricum Sacrum , a monumental work on church conditions in the Balkan countries.

Farlati attended school in Gorizia and entered the Jesuit order in Bologna in 1707 . For five years he worked as a teacher of Greek and Latin at the Jesuit college in Padua, then went to Rome to complete his theological studies and was ordained a priest in 1722.

Back in Padua he became assistant to the church historian Filippo Riceputi . This had come up with the plan to write a large-scale church history of Illyria . To this end, he had printed a working paper in 1720. For 20 years Riceputi and Farlati collected material from archives and libraries for this work, which after completion of the research comprised more than 300 extensive manuscript volumes. Until Riceputi's death (1742) only the Martyriologium Illyricum and the biography of St. Pietro Orseolo completed. Farlati now had to continue as the editor in charge and lead author. His assistant became the Jesuit Jacopo Coleti .

The first volume of Illyricum Sacrum appeared in Venice in 1751, three more volumes followed shortly afterwards. Shortly before the fifth volume went to press, Daniele Farlati also died. Coleti did not publish the last volume until 1818.

To this day, Illyricum Sacram is an important source of church history in the Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and the neighboring areas. Many of the original sources that were available to Farlati are now lost or difficult to access.

Illyricum Sacrum, title page of the first volume

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Illyricum Sacrum :

  • Ecclesia Salonitana, from ejus exordio usque ad saeculum quastum aerae Christianae. (1751)
  • Ecclesia Salonitana, a quarto saeculo aerae Christianae usque ad excidicem Salonae. (1753)
  • Ecclesia Spalatensis olim Salonitana (1765)
  • Ecclesia suffraganeae metropolis Spalatensis (1769)
  • Ecclesia Jadertina (1775)
  • Ecclesia Ragusina (with Jacopo Coleti 1800)
  • Ecclesia Diocletana, Antibarensis, Dyrrhachiensis, et Sirmiensis (with Jacopo Coleti 1817)
  • Ecclesia scopiensis, sardicensis, marcianopolitana, schridensis et ternobensis. (Jacopo Coleti 1819)

More :

  • De artis criticae inscritia antiquitati. (1777)

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SURNAME Farlati, Daniele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian church historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH San Daniele del Friuli
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1773
Place of death Padua , Republic of Venice