Daniele Farlati

Farlati was born in San Daniele del Friuli in the present Italian province of Udine.

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 of Illyria and the life of Pietro I Orseolo, were about completed, Riceputi died.

The first volume of Illyricum Sacrum appeared in Venice, in 1751; it contained the history of the Church in Salona up to the fourth century.