Appiano Buonafede

Appiano Buonafede (1716–1793) was an Italian priest and philosopher who published under the name Agatopisto Cromaziano.

His principal works are on the history of philosophy, though he also published a few poems and philosophic comedies. Most of his compilation was based on the works of Johann Jakob Brucker and Thomas Stanley. For example, his seven-volume Della istoria e della indole di ogni filosofia di Agatopisto Cromaziano (1766–1781) was heavily dependent on the works of Brucker.

Biography Born in 1716 into a patrician family, after attending his early schools in his native Comacchio, having been orphaned by his father, in order to continue his studies he entered the Celestines in 1734, changing his secular name of Tito Benvenuto to the religious name of Appiano. After attending the course of philosophy in Bologna, from 1737 he followed the next course of theology in Rome. at the age of seventy-seven in 1793.

Works Saggio di commedie filosofiche con ampie annotazioni di A. Agatopisto Cromaziano (1754) Istoria critica e filosofica del suicidio ragionato di Agatopisto Cromaziano (1761) Delle conquiste celebri esaminate col naturale diritto delle genti (1763) Della istoria e della indole di ogni filosofia di Agatopisto Cromaziano, 7 vols., (1766–1781) Il genio borbonico, versi epici di Agatopisto Cromaziano nelle nozze auguste delle altezze reali di Ferdinando di Borbone... e di Maria Amalia... (1769) Della restaurazione di ogni filosofia ne' secoli, XVI., XVII., XVIII., 3 vols., (1785–1789) (German trans. by C. Heydenreich) Epistole tusculane di un solitario ad un uomo di città (1789) Storia critica del moderno diritto di natura e delle genti (1789)