Giuseppe Catalani (1698-1764), also known as Catalano or Catalanus, was a Roman Catholic liturgist of the eighteenth century, a member of the Hieronymite Oratory of San Girolamo della Carità.
Catalani is also the author of works on the history, series, duties and privileges of two important curial offices: De Magistro Sacri Palatii libri duo (Rome, 1751) and De Secretario S. Congregatione Indicis libri duo (Rome, 1751).
Catalani composed a historical treatise on the reading of the Gospels at Mass, its origin, ancient usages, etc.
He also prepared an edition of the decrees of the ecumenical councils, which Father Hurter calls a very learned ("plane docta") work: "Sacrosancta concilia oecumenica commentariis illustrata" (Rome, 1736–49).
of Cardinal d'Aguirre's Collectio maxima conciliorum Hispaniae et Novi Orbis, i.e. of Mexico and South America (first published at Rome, in 1693).