St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio
Baptized Giovanni di Fidanza
b. 1221 -- d. 1274 A. D.
DOCTOR SERAPHICUS
FRIAR MINOR,
MASTER OF PARIS,
MINISTER GENERAL OF THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR,
CARDINAL BISHOP OF ALBANO,
FATHER OF THE COUNCIL OF LYONS,
DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
This page contains links to St. Bonaventure on the Internet, and is updated regularly.
Biographies Articles Writings Art
Biographies
St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, Doctor of the Church c/o CE
St. Bonaventure, by Archbishop Paschal Robinson, OFM
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juli: H. Bonaventura, bisschop en kerkleraar (Nederlander)
San
Bonaventura: il Dottore serafico e devoto, di Maurizio Schoepflin
(italiano)
San Bonaventura
a cura di Culturanuova.net con collegamenti (italiano, con imagini)
Bonaventura:
Giovanni Fidanza: la sua filosofia (italiano)
Giovanni Fidanza
(Bonaventura di Bagnoregio), al cura di Diogene (italiano)
Bonaventura
da Bagnoregio, al cura della Società Danti Alighieri (italiano)
Bonaventura da Bagnoregio,
al cura di Diego Fusaro (italiano)
Bonaventura,
Santo al cura di F. Diani (italiano, con immagine)
Bonaventura
da Bagnoregio, al cura di Sapere.it (italiano)
La Vita di San
Bonaventura, al cura della parrochia di San Lorenzo (italiano, con imagini)
La Vita di San
Bonaventura, a cura
della Parrocchia di San Bonaventura, Bagnoregio (VT), Italia (con immagine)
— Nota dal Editore: Quando stavo in pellegrinaggio l’anno
scorso in Europa, ho fatto una visita alla tomba del Santo, dove ho preso una
copia di questo foglio (riprodotto qui al “The Franciscan Archive” in modo
elettronico).
The Life of St. Bonaventure: published by the Parish of St. Bonaventure, Bagnoregio, Italy (w. image) — Editor’s Note: When I was on pilgrimage last year in Europe, I picked up a copy of this flyer in Italian, when I visited the tomb of the Saint. It is reproduced here in electronic form, in English translation.
Articles
The Triumph of the Catholic Intelligence: St. Bonaventure, St. Albert the Great, St. Thomas Aquinas, by Msgr. Philip Hughes
Saint Bonaventure: docteur de l'église catholique, (en Frances)
I doni dello Spirito in S.Bonaventura: di Francesco Bertoldi
Bonaventure’s Theory of Individuation, by Peter King (PDF), in Individuation and Scholasticism (SUNY 1994), 141–172
Cività di Bagnoregio: the birthplace of St. Bonaventure (illustrated)
Bagnoregio (VT), Italia: where St. Bonaventure’s Relics are conserved (Italiano)
Bonaventura da Bagnoregio nella Divina Commedia
La Filosofía de San
Buenaventura: Las Ideas y La Ciencia Divina, Etienne Gilson (BEBF: Espanol)
Sanctuaire du Saint Bonaventure, Lyons, France, where the body of the Saint lay, until it was thrown in the Saone River, by the French Revolutionaries. (St. Bonaventure was buried in what is now the new Sacristy, to the left of the Sanctuary: This church has some rare paitings, one depicting St. Bonaventure’s miraculous raising of a boy from the dead.
Writings
Below you will find links to Latin, English, French & Spanish editions of St. Bonaventure's Writings:
Please note, that The Franciscan Archive publishes 2 of Bonaventure’s works. See here.
Also note Amazon.com sells this publication: a plagiarized version of Br. Alexis Bugnolo’s translation of the Itinerarium. It is a bold thing to steal another’s work, but even more bold to sell it; but it is the consummation of boldness to do so, stripping the work of the author’s name, not to mention footnotes!
Quite something else, when a Billion-dollar company steals from a friar minor, who has nothing! — so please, if you have an Amazon account, let them know that you do not appreciate what they are doing.
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Commentaria in Quatuor Libros Sententiarum, from the Quaracchi Edition |
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Commentarius in primum librum
sententiarum Petri Lombardi, Brescia: 1490 |
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The Mind’s Road to God: English translation of the 1938 Quaracchi Edition of St. Bonaventure’s Itinerarium mentis in Deum |
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De Mysterio Trinitatis, Q. 1, a. 1: Se l'essere di Dio sia una
verità indubitabile |
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Speculum disciplinae ad novicios, Paris: 1501 |
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Exempla sacre scripture, Paris: 1500 |
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De castitate et munditia sacerdotum, Paris: 1495? |
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Opuscula ordinis minorum de observantia, Brescia: 1495 |
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Oeuvres Spirituelles du Saint Bonaventure, traduites par M. L’Abbé Berthaumier |
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The 12 Works of Charity, which Your Guardian Angel wants to do for you. (English: PDF), extracted from Bonaventure’s Commentaria.
Christ
the One Teacher of All
by St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, Doctor of the Church
Translated from the Quaracchi Edition of the Opera Omnia S. Bonaventurae Vol. V, 1891, pp. 567-574, with original notes.
Latin & English Text: HTML (2005 Edition) published by The Franciscan Archive
Collationes
de Septem Donis S. Sancti
by St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, Doctor of the Church
These 7 conferences on the gifts of the Holy Spirit are a succinct exposition of the Seraphic Doctor's teaching on grace. Long used as a handbook on the theology of grace in the Order of Friars Minor, it has had a profound influence on the theology of all Franciscans during the last 800 years.
Complete Texts in Latin (BEBF) / Français (JesusMarie.com)
New English Translation : Published by the Franciscan Archive
First Conference in Latin & English
(67 k) : HTML
-- A Preliminary Tract on Grace according to its rise, use and fruit
Second Conference in Latin & English (82k): HTML
-- On the Gift of the Fear of God
Third Conference in Latin & English (70k): HTML
-- On the Gift of Piety
Fourth Conference in Latin & English (78k): HTML
-- On the Gift of Knowledge
Fifth Conference in Latin & English (52k): HTML
-- On the Gift of Fortitude
Sixth Conference in Latin & English (78k): HTML
-- On the Fortitude of the Blessed Virgin
Seventh Conference in Latin & English (65k): HTML
-- On the Gift of Counsel
Eighth Conference in Latin & English (65k): HTML
-- On the Gift of Understanding
Ninth Conference in Latin & English (78k): HTML
-- On the Gift of Wisdom
This English translation is literal and systematic, and like the translations of the Itinerarium Mentis in Deum, above, it aims to preserve the original metaphors employed by the Saint. The Latin text is taken from the edition at BEBF, and is ostensibly that of the Quaracchi edition; though a few typographic mistakes were discovered and corrected.
COMMENTARIA IN QUATUOR LIBROS SENTENTIARUM
The Quaracchi Edition and The Franciscan Archive’s Translation now have their own page
Sententiarum libri quattuor / cum commentario et quaestionibus B.Bonaventurae, additis articulis Parisiensibus necnon tabula Johannis Beckenhaub. -- Ed. facsímil. — Ed. original: Friburgi, Kilianus Fischer, [n.a. 2 mayo, 1493].
Images of the pages of Vol. 2 of St. Bonaventure’s Commentary, w. text of Peter Lombard, c/o University of Seville, Spain.
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
OR The Vision of the Poverello
in the Desert of Mt. Alverna
by St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, Doctor of the Church
St. Bonaventure wrote this work as a concise exposition of spiritual-theology for use of the friars of his order. Often it is wrongly considered to be simply a treatise on epistemology; nevertheless it does offer a profoundly catholic corrective to the method of critique, which has so derogated the philosophies of knowledge since the days of Rene Descartes.
English / Latin (BEBF) / Español (BEBF) / Français (JesusMarie.com)
The Mind’s Road to God: English translation of the 1938 Quaracchi Edition
Itinerario della mente a Dio, qualche brami del tesso di S.
Bonaventura (Italiano)
Itinerario della mente a Dio: brami del tesso di S. Bonaventura
(Italiano)
COMPLETELY REVISED (2005) English Translation with parallel Latin Text:
published by the Franciscan Archive
This translation is systematic and literal; with a particular emphasis on preserving the metaphors used by the Saint in their original signification
See our Publications page above, for more information.
Cuestiones disputadas acerca de la ciencia de Cristo: by St. Bonaventure (in Español c/o BEBF)
This work of the Seraphic Doctor discusses the extent and quality of knowledge in the human mind of the God-man
The Five Feasts
of the Child Jesus
by St. Bonaventure
This admirable work of the Seraphic Doctor discusses growth in the spiritual life, and reveals the wonderful devotion this Saint had for the Child Jesus, is currently available on the Web in French and Spanish.
Les Cinq Fêtes de l'enfant Jésus (Français : c/o JesusMarie.com)
Las cinco festividades del niño Jesús : traduccíon de Carlos Martínez, OFM (Español c/o BEBF)
Prayer after Communion, by St. Bonaventure
Still in use today, this is an ardent prayer for union with Christ.
Art
In addition to the images in the Biographies and Articles linked at the top of this page there is:
HERRERA, Francisco de, the Elder
St Bonaventure Enters the Franciscan Order: 1628 —Oil on canvas, 231 x 215 cm (Museo del Prado, Madrid)
SOLIMENA, Francesco
St Bonaventura Receiving the Banner of St Sepulchre from the Madonna: 1710 — Oil on canvas, 240 x 130 cm (Cathedral, Aversa: Caserta, Italia)
ZURBARÁN, Francisco de
The Lying-in-State of
St. Bonaventura: 1629
— Oil on canvas 250 x 225 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
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