Giuseppe Buonfiglio

Giuseppe Costanzo Buonfiglio ( Messina , 1547 - Messina , 21 December 1622 ) was an Italian soldier and historian.[1]

Giuseppe Costanzo Buonfiglio

Biography

Born in Messina in 1545, or according to other sources in 1547,[1] by Giovanni Artale, baron of Casale and Trisino, he was at the service of the Duke of Alba during military operations conducted in Flanders.

On his return to Sicily, he wrote the Sicilian Historia, published in Venice in 1604, imbued " with a municipal pride that almost always prevents him from having a serene vision of the past."[1]

In 1721, Johann Lorenz von Mosheim translated into Latin and included in the Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum nobilissimarum insularum Siciliae (IX, coll. 1-120) by Johann Georg Graeve and Pieter Burman the work of Buonfiglio, with the title Messanae urbis nobilissimae descriptio, octo libris comprehensa.

Main works
  • Of Sicilian history: which contains the ancient and modern descriptions of Sicily ... from its origin to the death of the Catholic king Don Filippo 2, collected for Gioseppe Buonfiglio Costanzo In Venetia: near Bonifacio Ciero; then in Messina: in the print of Pietro Brea, 1604-1613.
  • Messina noble city , Venice 1606.
  • Anti apology of Gioseppe Bonfiglio Costanzo caualier from Messina. Against apologists, allegants, and consultants, and of any other nomar name they may be. Contra the city of Messina; & Its Priorities , 1621.

Bibliography
  • F. Natale, Introduction to the study of the Sicilian Middle Ages , Florence 1959, pp. 67-70.
  • Aa.Vv. Dictionary of illustrious Sicilians , Palermo 1939, p. 84, 156.

References
  1. "BUONFIGLIO, Costanzo Giuseppe in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 29 November 2020.
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