BONFADIO, Jacopo.

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Opere volgari e latine. Second collected edition of the complete works of the Italian humanist Bonfadio (1508-1550). Originally published in 1746-47, it was here expanded with notes and includes a new dedication and a revised life of the author. Bonfadio's letters are his most important contribution, particularly as a sketch of Italy's reaction to the new theological doctrines of the Reformation.Jacopo Bonfadio was an academic from Lake Garda who travelled across Italy at the service of various prelates, eventually accepting a position as professor of philosophy and historian in Genoa. "Five years after his arrival he was beheaded and then burned as a consequence of an affair, possibly with a wellborn boy" (Cochrane, p. 244).This collection includes Bonfadio's letters, many addressed to famous contemporaries including Pietro Bembo, his son Torquato, and Paolo Manuzio. During a stay in Naples, Bonfadio became closer to the circle of Juan de Valdés, one of the most prominent exponents of the Catholic reformation in Italy. In a letter to the humanist Pietro Carnesecchi (p. 29-33), he wrote: "Valdés was one of the rare men of Europe, and those writings he has left on St Paul's letters and the Psalms of David will be the fullest evidence of it" (p. 32). This edition further includes Bonfadio's translation of Cicero's oration Pro Milone, with a commentary, his poetry (dedicated to the beauty of Lake Garda), and his Annales Genuendis, a history of the Republic of Genoa from 1528 to

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