title: Lorenzo Bonincontri
text: # Lorenzo Bonincontri
  
  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
     * De rebus coelestibus. Basel. Robert Winter. 1540.
  * 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.
  