Lorenzo Bonincontri, or Bonincontro, Latinized as Laurentius Bonincontrius (23 February 1410 - 1491), was an Italian astrologer, humanist and historian of the 15th century.
Life He was born in 1410 in San Miniato.
He lived in different cities in Italy: Naples (1450–75), Florence (1475–78) and Rome (1483–91), where he wrote part of his work.
He probably died in 1491 in Rome.
Works Rerum naturalium libri, Naples, 1469–1472. Poem in Latin hexameters. De rebus coelestibus, aureum opusculum, 1472–1475. Poem in three books of filosofic-astrologic topic dedicated to Ferdinand II of Aragon. De rebus coelestibus, Gaurico, Venice, 1526
Chronicon (chronicle from 903 to 1458) De ortu Regum Neapolitanorum (or Historia utriusque Siciliae), in 10 books, Florence, 1739–1740. History of the kings of Naples and Sicily.
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