BONFINI, ANTHONY, a Latin historian of the fifteenth century, was born at Ascoli, in Marches of Ancona, in December 1427, and attached himself to the study of history and the belles lettres. Matthias Corvin, king of Hungary, having heard of his learning, sent for him, retained him, and settled upon him a pension. He died in 1502, at the age of seventy-five. His works are, 1. Rerum Ungaricarum decades, Basil. 1545, folio; 2. Flavii Philostrati Lemnii Libri II. de Vitiis Sopiatarum, 1516, 4to; 3. Herogenis Libri de Arte Rhetorica et Aphthonii Sophista Prognostica, Lyons, 1538; 4. In Horatium Flaccum Commentarii, Rome, without date, 4to; and, 5. Symposion Beatricis, Basil. 1572 and 1621, 8vo.