Benivieni Dominico

Benivieni Dominico a Florentine theologian (surnamed Scottino, on account of his deep research in theology), was professor of logic at Pisa in 1479, and canon at Florence in 1491. He was on terms of intimate friendship with Marsilio Ficino and Jerome Savonarola. He died Dec. 3, 1507, leaving, Trattato in Defensione e Probazione dellan Doctrina e Profezie Predicate e Frate Jeronimo Savonlarola nella citta di Firenze (Florence, 1496): — Dialogo della Verita della Doctrina Predicata da F'rate Jeronimo (Florence): — Trionfo della Croce (ibid. i497): — Epistolke V Morales, and Lucerna Religiosorum et Commentar-ii in Sacras Omnes Ecclesic Hymnos (unpublished). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.