Bonaventura Belluto, O.F.M. Conv. (†1676)

Born about 1600 in Catania, Bonaventura Belluto entered the Conventual Franciscans.1 He is often called Belluti, but I call him Belluto with Forlivesi, who is attentive to the proper form of Italian names.2 He met Mastri when they studied at the Sistine College in Rome. Afterwards they taught together, first in Cesena and then in Perugia and Padua (1638–1641). They cooperated to produce a cursus of philosophy: the first volume was published in 1637, while they were teaching in Perugia. In 1645 Bonaventura returned to Sicily, where he was minster provincial (1645–1648) and consultor of the Roman Inquisition. He died in Catania on May 18, 1676.

See the page on Mastri for the works they wrote together. Separately, Belluto published a treatise on the Incarnation3 and a posthumous collection of short works on moral theology.4

  1. On this author, see Édouard d’Alençon, “Belluti Bonaventure,” in Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, vol. 2 (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1932), 601; Lorenzo Di Fonzo, “Belluti, Bonaventura,” in Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. 2 (Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia cattolica e per il libro cattolico, 1949), 1203.↩︎

  2. Cf. Marco Forlivesi, Scotistarum Princeps: Bartolomeo Mastri (1602–1673) e il suo tempo (Padova: Centro Studi Antoniani, 2002), 113.↩︎

  3. Bonaventura Belluto, Disputationes de Incarnatione Dominica ad mentem Doctoris Subtilis (Catanae: in aedibus Illustrissimi Senatus, apud Ioannem Rossi, 1645), https://books.google.com?id=8T6DVuJZqzEC.↩︎

  4. Bonaventura Belluto, Moralium opusculorum miscellaneo apparatu atque resolutionum (Catanae: in Typographia Bisagni, 1679), https://books.google.com?id=07dQAAAAcAAJ.↩︎