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BUONAFEDE (1716-1793)  , Italian philosopher, was born at Comachio, in Ferrara, and died in Rome . He became professor of theology at Naples in 1740, and, entering the religious body of the Celestines, rose to be general of the order . His principal works, generally published under the assumed name of " Agatopisto Cromazione," are on the history of philosophy:—Della Istoria e delle Indole - di ogni Filosofia, 7 vols., 1772 seq.; and Della Restaurazione di agni Filosofia ne' Secoli, xvi., xvii., xviii., 3 vols., 1789 (German trans. by C . Heydenreich) . The latter gives a valuable account of 16th-century Italian philosophy . His other works are Istoria critica e filosofica del suicidio (1761); Delle conquiste celebri esaminate col naturale diritto delle genii (1763); Scoria critica del moderno diritto di natura e delle genti (1789); and a few poems and philosophic comedies .