Giuseppe Bianchini (1704 in Verona – 1764 in Rome) was an Italian Oratorian, biblical, historical, and liturgical scholar.
Clement XII and Benedict XIV, who highly appreciated his learning, entrusted him with several scientific labors.
Bianchini had contemplated a large work on the texts of the Bible, Vindiciæ Canonicarum Scripturarum Vulgatæ latinæ editionis, which was to comprise several volumes, but only the first, in which, among other things, are to be found fragments of the Hexapla (Codex Chisianus), was published (Rome, 1740).
The chief liturgical work of Bianchini is Liturgia antiqua hispanica, gothica, isidoriana, mozarabica, toletana mixta (Rome, 1746).
[1] In addition he investigated and wrote an account of the reported spontaneous human combustion of the Countess Cornelia Zangheri Bandi (Verona, 1731, later republished at Rome).