Jacopo,** a celebrated Italian writer, born at Gazano, in the diocese of Brescia, about the commencement of the 16th century. He was secretary to Cardinal Merinos, archbishop of Bari, and afterwards to Cardinal Ghinucci at Genoa. He read public lectures on Aristotle's politics, and on rhetoric, and was appointed professor of philosophy and historiographer to that republic. He had completed five books of the annals of that state, which were to have been followed by others; but having spoken too freely of some noble families, they resolved upon his ruin, and accused him of an unnatural crime. As witnesses were found to convict him, he was condemned to the flames; but the sentence was commuted, as an act of special grace, into beheading. This took place in 1550. Authors have varied in their opinions as to Bonfadio's alleged guilt; Tiraboschi among others, maintains the affirmative of the question. His works are, 1. *Annationem Genuesium ab anno 1528 Recuperata Libertatis usque ad annum 1550, libri quinque*, Pavia, 1586, 4to; 2. *Lettere Famigliari di Jacopo Bonfadio, con altri suoi Composimenti in prosa ed in verso*, with a life of the author by Mazzucchelli, Brescia, 1746, 8vo.