a celebrated cardinal, called, from his works, the seraphic doctor. He was born at Bagnara, a small town of Tuscany, in 1221; and his original name was John Fidanza. He took the habit of a monk of the order of St Francis in 1243, became doctor of Paris in 1255, and the next year general of his order. After the death of Clement IV. the cardinals disagreeing about the election of a new pope, engaged themselves by a solemn promise to elect him who should be named by Bonaventure, even though it should be himself; but he chose Theobald archdeacon of Liege, who was then in the Holy Land, and took the name of Gregory X. This pope, in return, in 1272, made him cardinal and bishop of Alba, and ordered him to assist at the second general council of Lyons, where he died in 1274. His works were printed at Rome in 8 vols folio.