Lorenzo Bonincontri, or Bonincontro, latinized as Laurentius Bonincontrius (23 February 1410 - 1491), was an Italian astrologer, humanist and historian of the 15th century.
Life
He was born in 1410 in San Miniato.
He lived in different cities in Italy: Naples (1450-75), Florence (1475-78) and Rome (1483-91), where he wrote part of his work.
He probably died in 1491 in Rome.
Works
- Rerum naturalium libri, Naples, 1469-1472. Poem in latin hexameters.
- De rebus coelestibus, aureum opusculum, 1472-1475. Poem in three books of filosofic-astrologic topic dedicated to Ferdinand II of Aragon.
- De rebus coelestibus, Gaurico, Venice, 1526
- De rebus coelestibus. Basel. 1540 – via Robert Winter.
- Chronicon (chronicle from 903 to 1458)
- De ortu Regum Neapolitanorum (or Historia utriusque Siciliae), in 10 books, Florence, 1739-1740. History of the kings of Naples and Sicily.
References
- ^ "BONINCONTRI, Lorenzo in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-22.
- "Lorenzo Bonincontri | enciclopèdia.cat". www.enciclopedia.cat. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
Further reading
- Grayson, Cecil (1970). "BONINCONTRI, Lorenzo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 12: Bonfadini–Borrello (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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