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Giuseppe Buonfiglio | |
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_(14592924220).jpg) Giuseppe Costanzo Buonfiglio | |
| Born | Giuseppe Costanzo Buonfiglio 1547 |
| Died | 21 December 1622(1622-12-21) (aged 74–75) Messina, Kingdom of Sicily |
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| Father | Giovanni Artale |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | History of Sicily |
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Giuseppe Costanzo Buonfiglio (Messina, 1547 – Messina, 21 December 1622) was an Italian soldier and historian.[1]
Born in Messina in 1545, or according to other sources in 1547,[1] by Giovanni Artale, baron of Casale and Trisino, he was at the service of theDuke of Alba during theEighty Years' War.
On his return to Sicily, he wrote theSicilian Historia, published in Venice in 1604, imbued "with a municipal pride that almost always prevents him from having a serene vision of the past."[1] In 1595, when theOttoman fleet, commanded bySinan Pasha, threatened Messina, he was entrusted with the command of 600arquebusiers and a company of horsemen. He died in Messina on 21 December 1622.
In 1721,Johann Lorenz von Mosheim translated intoLatin and included in theThesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum nobilissimarum insularum Siciliae (IX, coll. 1-120) byJohann Georg Graevius andPieter Burman the work of Buonfiglio, with the titleMessanae urbis nobilissimae descriptio, octo libris comprehensa.
