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

Appiano Buonafede
Born4 January 1716 Edit this on Wikidata
Comacchio, Papal States
Died17 December 1793 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 77)
Rome, Papal States
OccupationPhilosopher, writer Edit this on Wikidata
MovementCatholic philosophy

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 edit

  • 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 edit

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c   One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, 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.

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