Appiano Buonafede

Appiano Buonafede
Born	4 January 1716  Comacchio, Papal States
Died	17 December 1793  (aged 77) Rome, Papal States
Occupation	Philosopher, writer
Movement	Catholic philosophy

Appiano Buonafede (1716–1793) was an Italian priest[1] and philosopher who published under the name Agatopisto Cromaziano.[1]

Appiano Buonafede was born in Comacchio, a Province of Ferrara, and died in Rome. He became a professor of theology while in Naples in 1740, and entering the religious body of the Celestines, rose to be general of the order in 1777.[2]

His principal works are on the history of philosophy, though he also published a few poems and philosophic comedies.[2] He was “certainly not an original historian, but nor was he a simple compiler.”[3] The most part of his compilation was based on the works of Johann Jakob Brucker and Thomas Stanley.[4] For example, his seven-volume Della istoria e della indole di ogni filosofia di Agatopisto Cromaziano (1766-1781) was heavily dependent on the works of Brucker.[5]

Works

• Saggio di commedie filosofiche con ampie annotazioni di A. Agatopisto Cromaziano (1754)
• Istoria critica e filosofica del suicidio ragionato di Agatopisto Cromaziano (1761)
• Delle conquiste celebri esaminate col naturale diritto delle genti (1763)
• Della istoria e della indole di ogni filosofia di Agatopisto Cromaziano, 7 vols., (1766-1781)
• Il genio borbonico, versi epici di Agatopisto Cromaziano nelle nozze auguste delle altezze reali di Ferdinando di Borbone... e di Maria Amalia... (1769)
• Della restaurazione di ogni filosofia ne' secoli, XVI., XVII., XVIII., 3 vols., (1785-1789) (German trans. by C. Heydenreich)
• Epistole tusculane di un solitario ad un uomo di città (1789)
• Storia critica del moderno diritto di natura e delle genti (1789)[2]

References

1. Vidal, Fernando (1 Dec 2011). The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-226-85588-2. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
2.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Buonafede, Appiano". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 806.
3. Santinello, Giovanni (1 Dec 2010). Models of the History of Philosophy: Volume II: From Cartesian Age to Brucker. Berlin: Springer Science & Business Media. p. 560. ISBN 978-9-048-19507-7. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
4. Garin, Eugenio (20 December 2007). History of Italian Philosophy, Volume 1. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 751. ISBN 978-9-042-02321-5. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
5. K. J. Park, Peter (1 Jun 2013). Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780 1830. Albany (New York): SUNY Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-1-438-44641-7. Retrieved 31 March 2022.

External links

• Salinari, Giambattista (1972). "BUONAFEDE, Appiano". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 15: Buffoli–Caccianemici (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.