Daniele Farlati (February 22, 1690 April 25, 1773) was a church historian and Jesuit. He was born in San Daniele del Friuli, and studied in Gorizia. He entered the Society of Jesus in Bologna in 1707, for whom he taught classics in Padua. He completed his theological studies in Rome and entered the priesthood in 1722. Returning to Padua, he assisted Filippo Riceputi in the preparation of an ecclesiastical history of Illyricum, a project he had begun in 1720. Together they researched this project for twenty years, traveling to Dalmatia to consult Roman-era archives of the province and assembling a monumental 300 volumes of mansuscript with their research. Riceputi died in 1742; Farlati was left with the task of organizing the remainder of the work, with the assistance of Giovanni Giacomo Coleti. The first volume of Illyricum Sacrum was first published in 1751, focusing on the Church in Salona up to the fourth century: this covered an important period, in which Salona became the de facto capital of the Western Roman Empire during the life of the last western Roman Emperor. Farlati saw the completion of four volumes; his partner Coleti continued the work on the remaining four, finally completed in 1818.