Marco Antonio Bonciari

Marco Antonio Bonciari or Bonciario (9 February 1555 – 9 January 1616) was an Italian Renaissance scholar and writer.

Marco Antonio Bonciari
Born	(1555-02-09)February 9, 1555 Antria, Perugia, Papal States
Died	9 January 1616(1616-01-09) (aged 60) Perugia, Papal States
Nationality	Italian
Occupations	Renaissance humanist Latinist
Parent(s)	Mario Bonciari and Francesca Bonciari (née Puracci)
Academic work
Era	Renaissance
Discipline	Classics
Notable students	Cesare Crispolti Secondo Lancellotti

Biography

Marco Antonio Bonciari was born at Antria, a small village near Perugia, on 9 February 1555.^[1] He studied humanities with the French scholar Muretus at Rome.^[2] His patron Fulvio Giulio della Corgna appointed him director of the seminary that he had established in Perugia. He taught the classics until 1590, when he went blind.^[1] He had among his pupils the famous Perugian scholars Secondo Lancellotti and Cesare Crispolti.^[3][4] He died in 1616. His works in Latin include a Latin Grammar was widely used in Italian schools, and went through several reeditions. Bonciari was a member of the Accademia degli Insensati of Perugia, assuming the pseudonym of Terrestre.^[5] He was in active correspondence with famous scholars: the philologists Justus Lipsius and Erycius Puteanus, the cardinals Caesar Baronius, Robert Bellarmine and Silvio Antoniano, the humanists Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Mark Welser, Aldus Manutius the Younger and Girolamo Mercuriale, the poet Angelo Grillo and the jesuits Orazio Torsellino and Giovanni Pietro Maffei.^[6] In 1611, he was admitted to the Accademia degli Umoristi of Rome.^[1]

Works

• Grammatica, Perugia, 1593, 1600, 1601, 1630, in-8°.
• Epistolæ in XII libros divisæ, Perugia, 1603, 1604, 1612, 1613, in-8°.
• Seraphidos lib. V, aliaque pia poemata. Perugia: apud Academicos Augustos. 1606.
• Idyllia et selectarum epistolarum centuria nova, cum decuriis duabus. Perugia: apud Academicos Augustos. 1607.
• Opuscula decem varii argumenti. Perugia: apud Academicos Augustos. 1607.
• Extaticus, sive de ludicra poesi Dialogus, Perugia, 1607, in-8°; 1615, in-8°.
• Triumphus augustus, sive de Sanctis Perusiæ translatis libri IV. Perugia: apud Marcum Naccarinum. 1610.

Notes

1. Negri 1969.
2. Marco Antonio Bonciari entry (in Italian) by Giovanni F. Cecchini in the Enciclopedia Treccani, 1930
3. Russo, Emilio (2004). "LANCELLOTTI, Secondo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 63: Labroca–Laterza (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
4. Volpi, Roberto (1984). "CRISPOLTI, Cesare". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 30: Cosattini–Crispolto (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
5. Mazzucchelli 1762, p. 1573.
6. Mazzucchelli 1762, p. 1575.

Bibliography

• Rossi, Gian Vittorio (1642). Pinacotheca imaginum illustrium. Vol. I. Lipsiae. pp. 98–100.
• Mazzucchelli, Giammaria (1762). Gli scrittori d'Italia. Vol. II, 3. Brescia: Giambattista Bossini. pp. 1571–577.
• Negri, Renzo (1969). "BONCIARI, Marco Antonio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 11: Boccadibue–Bonetti (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.