an island in the Eastern Seas, about twenty-five miles in circuit, lying off the north-western extremity of Ceram. Long. 123. 5. E. Lat. 33. S.

**Bonaparte**, or Buonaparte. See Napoleon.

**Bonarelli, della Rovere, Count Guid' Ubaldino**, an Italian poet, born at Urbino on the 25th December 1563, was the son of Count Pietro Bonarelli, minister of the duke of Urbino. He was intrusted with several important negotiations, and was esteemed an able politician and learned philosopher. He was the author of a *favola pastorale*, entitled *Filli di Sciro*, printed for the first time at Ferrara in 1607, with cuts, 4to; and of an amatory production entitled *Discorsi in difesa del doppio Amor della sua Celia*, first printed at Ancona in 1612, 4to. He died at Fano in 1608, aged forty-five.

**Bonassus.** See Mammalia, Index.

**Bonati**, a city, the capital of a district of the same name, in the Principato-Citeriore, of the kingdom of Naples, containing 3480 inhabitants.

**Bonaventure**, a celebrated cardinal, called, from his works, the Seraphic Doctor. He was born at Bagnara, a small town of Tuscany, in 1221. His original name was Giovanni Fidenza; but from a particular circumstance he got that of Bonaventure, by which alone he is now generally known. He took the habit of a monk of the order of St Francis in 1243, was received doctor at Paris in 1255, and the year following became 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 the person who should be named by Bonaventure, even although it should be himself; but he nominated Theobald, archdeacon of Liège, who was then in the Holy Land, and who, on his election, assumed the name of Gregory X. This pope, in return, made Bonaventure a cardinal and bishop of Alba in 1273, and ordered him to assist at the second general council of Lyons, where he died in 1274. His works were printed at Rome in 7 vols. folio. Bonaventure was canonized by Sixtus IV.; proclaimed doctor of the church, with the surname of Seraphic Doctor, by Sixtus V.; eulogised by Luther as an excellent man (*Bonaventura, praestantissimus vir*); and characterized by Bellarmin as a doctor alike beloved by God and man.

**Bonavista**, an island near the western coast of Africa, forming part of the group called Cape de Verd from their vicinity to that remarkable promontory. It was the first of the number discovered by the Portuguese in 1450. Captain Porter describes the island as consisting of a level plain, rising in the centre into rugged and rocky eminences. A great part is capable of cultivation, and might yield in abundance cotton and indigo, were these properly attended to by the indolent natives. There are two good roads for shipping. The northern side, according to Captain Cook, is in long. 22. 59. E. and lat. 16. 17. N.

**Bonawasi**, a small and decayed town of Hindostan, in the province of North Canara, district of Soonda, on the confines of the Bednore district. It contained in Hyder's time 500 houses, but is now in a ruinous condition. Long. 75. 12. E. Lat. 14. 27. N.