Bordoni, Francisco

Bordoni, Francisco, a Franciscan of Parma, was born in 1597. At the age of fifteen he joined his order, whose general he became, and died Aug. 7, 1671. He wrote, De Constructione Syllogismorum (Milan, 1630): De Antiquitate Religionis Tertii Ord . S. Francisci (Bologne, 1644): — Ecclesiastica Ratiocinatio Festorumn Mobilium (ibid. 1657): — Chronologium nFratrum et Sororum III Ord. Seraphici (Parma, 1655): — Formalitates Doctoris Subtilis ab Objectis Vindicate (ibid. 1662): Privilegia Clericorum in Controversiis (ibid. 1668), etc. See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 719. (B. P.)