Daniele Farlati

Daniele Farlati ( born February 22, 1690 in San Daniele del Friuli, † April 25, 1773 in Padua ) was a church historian and Jesuit. His most famous work is Illyricum Sacrum, a monumental work on the church situation in the Balkans.

Farlati visited the school in Gorizia and entered 1707 in Bologna in the Society of Jesus. 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 Church historian Filippo Riceputi. This had made the plan to write a full-scale church history of Illyria. For this purpose he had in 1720 given a working paper in print. 20 years and contributed Riceputi Farlati from archives and libraries for this material together, which included more than 300 large manuscript volumes after completion of the research. Until the death Riceputis ( 1742) was only the martyrology of Illyricum and the Life of St.. Pietro Orseolo completed. Farlati now had to continue as a responsible editor and principal author. His assistant was the Jesuit Jacopo Coleti.

The first volume of Illyricum Sacrum was published in 1751 in Venice, three more volumes followed at a short distance. Just before the fifth volume was added to the pressure, also died Daniele Farlati. The last band released Coleti until 1818.

Illyricum Sacram is still an important source for the history of the Church of the Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and neighboring areas. Many original sources, which have been available Farlati are now lost or difficult to access.

Work

Illyricum Sacrum:

  • Ecclesia Salonitana, from ejus usque ad exordio 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)

Other:

  • De artis criticae inscritia antiquitati. (1777 )
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