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Bianchini (Lat.Blanchinus), Giuseppe, a learned Italian priest of the Oratory, was born in Verona, Sept. 9, 1704. He studied at Rome, and was in 1725 canon at his native place. He resigned his position in 1732 and went to Rome, where he joined the Congregation of the Oratory. In 1740 he was appointed secretary to the Academy of Church History, and died after 1760. He is the author of, Einarratio Pseudo-Athanasiana in Symbolum anfefac Inedita et FViilii Tapsitani de Trinitate Liber VI znunc Primunz Genuinus Prolatus, etc. (Verona, 1732): — Anastasii Bibliothecarii de Vitis Romannorum Pontificum cunm Notis Variorumn, tomus IV (Rorne, 1735, fol.): — Vindicice Canonicarum Scripturarnm Vulgatce Latince Editilois, sive Vetera S. Bibliorum Foragnenta juxta Grcecam Vulgatam et Hexaplarem Antiquam Italam, Duplicenque S. Eusebii et Hieroznyni Translationem (ibid. 1740), against which J. Chr. Mittenzwey wrote his Disputatio Anti-Blanchiniana (Leipsic, 17.60): — Evangeliorum Quadruplex Latines Versionis Antiquce, seu Veteris Italicce, nunc Primum in Lucem Editum (Rome, 1749): — Demonstratio Histories Ecclesiasticce Quadripartites Comprobatoe Monumentis ad Fidem Temporum et Gestorum (ibid. 1752). See Mazzuchelli, Scrittori d' Italia (Brescia, 1753), s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 48, 59, 884; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)