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Grammatics leges plerumque ccclefiu fpeTnit : 
Forte erir, ut liceat dicere Bona papa. 
Vana folcecifmi ne te conturbet imago : 
Edet papa bonus, (i Bona papa foret. 
The learned know that thefe lines cannot be tranflated ; 
and therefore we hope the Englifli reader will excufe it. 
In the mean time Bona was not defied pope,; which how¬ 
ever could be no mortification to a man wholly given up 
to fhidy and devotion. He was very learned ; held a cor- 
refpondence with mod of the literati in Europe, and was 
fometimes at the pains of revifing and corrediing their 
works. He was the author of feveral things in the devo¬ 
tional way, which were much ebeemed, and have been 
tranflated into French. Bona died as he had lived, with 
the greated tranquillity and piety, aged fixty-five. 
BO'NA,/i in botany. See Vicia Faea. 
BON A'CM I, a town of North America, in New Navarre: 
180 miles fouth of Cafa Grand. 
BO'NA DEA, a name given to Ops, Veda, Cybele, 
and Rhea, by the Greeks ; by the Latins to Fauna, or 
Fatua. 1 his goddefs was lo chade, that no man but her 
hufbar.d law her after her marriage ; from which reafon, 
her fedivals were celebrated only in the night by the Ro¬ 
man matrons in theirhoufes, and all the datues of the men 
were carefully covered with a veil, where the ceremonies 
were obferved. Juncval. 
BO'NA Fl'D E,/i That we fay is done bond fide, which 
is done really, with a good faith, without any fraud or 
deceit. 
BO'fsAGHT, or Bonaghty,/. Was an exaftion in 
Ireland, impofed on the people at the will of the lord, for 
relief of the knights called bonoghti, who ferved in the 
wars. Aniiq. Hibern. p.6o. 
BONA'IR, or Buen-ayre, a fmal 1 ifland near the 
road of South America, about fifty miles in circumfe¬ 
rence : it produces maize, potatoes, &c. and has fprings 
of fredi water, on the fouth-weft fide is a good harbour 
and road : fourteen leagues eab of Curajoa. Lat. 12.26. N. 
Ion. 68. 18. W. Greenwich. 
BONA'MES, a town of Germany, in the eircle of the 
Upper Rhine : three miles north-wed of Francfort on the 
Maine. 
BO'NA MO'BILIA,/! The fame with moveable ef- 
feds or goods. 
BONAN'NI (Philip), a learned Jefuit, died at Rome 
in 1725, at the age of eighty-feven, after having honour¬ 
ably filled different pods in his order. He was engaged, 
in 169S, to put in order the celebrated cabinet of pere 
Kircher ; and he continued to employ himfelf in that bu- 
finefs and the augmentation of it till his death. The Chief 
of his wotks are, 1. Recreatio Mentis et Oculi in Obfer- 
vatione Animalium Tefiaceorum, Roma;, 1684, 4to. with 
near 500 figures. 2. Hidory of the Church of the Vatican; 
with the plans both ancient and modern, Rome, 1696, 
folio, in Latin. 3. Collection of the Medals of the Popes, 
from Martin V. to Innocent XII. Rome, 1699, 2 vols. 
folio, in Latin. 4. Catalogue of the Orders, Religious, 
Military, and Equedrian, with plates reprefenting their 
feveral habiliments, in Latin and in Italian, Rome,- 1706, 
1707, 1710, and 1711, 4 vols. 4to. The plates in parti¬ 
cular render this lad work highly intereding and much in 
requed. 5. Obfervationes circa Viventia in non viv.enti- 
btis, Rome, 16.91, 4to. 6. Mudeum Collegii Romani 
Kircherianum, Rome, 1709, folio. 7. A Treatife on 
Varnidies, in Italian, Paris, 1713, 121110. 8. Gabinetto 
Armonico, 1723, 4to. 
BO'NA NOTABI'LIA, fi. Are fuch goods as a perfon 
dying has in another dioeefe than that wherein he dies, 
amounting to the value of five pounds at lead ; in which 
cafe tire will of the deceafed mud be proved, or adminif- 
tration granted in the court of the archbifhop of the pro¬ 
vince, unlefs by compofition or cuftom, any diocefes are 
authorifed to do it, when rated at a greater fum. 
BO'NA NO X,fi. in botany. See Smilax. 
BON 
BO'NA PA'TRIA,yi An aflife of countrymen or good 
neighbours : it is fometimes called afiifa bonce patrice, when 
twelve or more men are chofen out of any part of the coun¬ 
try to pals upon an aflife ; otherwife called juratores, be- 
caufe they are to fwear judicially in the prefence of the par¬ 
ty, &c. according to the practice of Scotland. Skene. See 
BO'NA PERITU'RA, fi. Goods that are perifhable. 
The dat. Wedm. 1, 3 Edw. I. c. 4, as to wrecks of the 
fea, ordains, that if the goods within the (hip be bona pe- 
ritura, fuch things as will not endure for a year and a day, 
the fherid' fliall fell them, and deliver the money received 
to anfwer it. See Wreck. 
BONAREL'LI (Gui Ubaldo), an Italian count, born 
at Urbino, December 25, 1563. He brought his talents 
to great perfection in France and Italy. The duke of Fer¬ 
rara entruded him with feveral negociations, in which he 
difplayed his abilities in politics. His turn for poetry did 
not manifed itfelf till late. But his find elfay, his Fibs 
de Sciro, (the handfomededition of which is that of Elze¬ 
vir, 1678, in 4to. or that of Glafgow, 1763, 8vo.) was 
compared to the Pador Fido, and to the Arnynta. There 
are few padqrals written witli greater art and ingenuity. 
He died January 8, 1608, at the age of forty-five. 
BON A'RES, a town of Spain, in Andalufia: one league 
from Lucena. 
BO'NA RO'BA,/l [Ital. afinegown.] A fhewy wanton, 
:—We knew where the bona robas were. Shakefipeare. 
BONARO'TA,/. in botany. See P^derota. 
BONASCO'LA, a town of Italy, in the date of Genoa, 
near the fea-coad : four miles and a half fouth-feuth-weffc 
of Brugnetto. 
BONA'SUS.y. [Lat.] A kind ofbufalo, or wild bull. 
BON AT', a town of France, in the department of the 
Creufe, and chief place of a canton, in the diftricl of 
Gueret : three leagues and a half north of Gueret. 
BO'NA VACAN'TIA,/! Goods; fuch as foyal-fidi, 
fhipvvrecks, treafure-trove, waifs, and edrays, in which 
no one can claim a property. Thefe goods by the law of 
nature, and by the imperial law, belonged to the firft oc¬ 
cupant or finder; but, in the modern conditutions of Eu¬ 
ropean governments, they are annexed to the fupreme 
power by the politive laws of the date. 
BONAVENTU'RA-BAY, in America, on the coad 
next the South Sea, in the Popayan. It has a port and 
harbour for flops ; but the air is very unwholefdme. 
BONAVEN'TURE, a celebrated cardinal, called, from 
his works, th e JirapHc doBor. He was born at Bagnarea, 
a fmall town of Tufcany, in 1221 ; and his original name 
was John Fidauze. He took the habit of a monk of the 
order of St. Francis in 1243, became dodor of Paris in 
1255, and the next year general of his order. After the 
death of Clement IV. the cardinals difagreeing about (lie 
election of a new pope, engaged themfelvqs by a fplerim 
promile to eled him who (hoiild be named by Bonaven- 
ture, even though it lhould be himfelf; but h'd thole 
Theobald, archdeacon of Liege, then in the Holy Land,, 
and who took the name of Gregory X. This pope, in re¬ 
turn, in 1272, made him cardinal and billiop of Alba, and 
ordered him to adid at the fecoiid general council of Ly¬ 
ons, where he died in 1274. His works were printed'at 
Rome, in 8 vols. folio. 
BONAVEN'TURE (of Padua), a cardinal, born in 
that city in 1332, and defeended’ from a noble ahd ill ft f- 
trious family. He dudied divinity at Paris, where he'diT- 
tinguifiied himfelf by his uncommon parts and application. 
He was of the order of St. Augftdin, of which he was 
made general in 1377. Pope Urban VI. gave him a car¬ 
dinal’s hat the year after ; which engaging him to llarid 
up for the rights of the church againd Francis de Carrario 
of Padua, that petty monarch contrived to have Him mur¬ 
dered. He was difpatched with the fliot of an arrow, as 
he was pading St. Angelo’s bridge at Rome, in 1386. He 
was.the author of Commentaries upon the Epidles of St. 
John and James, Lives of the Saints, Sermons, Speculum 
