Giovanni Boveri (Boverius) (
Saluzzo
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, 1568-
Genoa
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, 1638) was an Italian jurist, who became a
Capuchin Friar Minor
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, taking the name Zacharias. He is known as a historian and theologian. According to the ''
Catholic Encyclopedia
''The'' ''Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church'', also referred to as the ''Old Catholic Encyclopedia'' and the ''Original Catholic Encyclopedi ...
'' he was a “man of great learning not only as an historian, but as a controversial writer”.
Works
*''Orthodoxa consultatio de ratione verae fidei et religionis amplectenda'' (Cologne, 1626)
*''Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum'' (Lyon, 1632)
See also
*
Boveri (disambiguation page)
References
*Arthur von Schaching, ''Die Schrift des P. Zacharias Boverius o. cap. "Orthodoxa consultatio de ratione verae fidei et religionis amplectendae"'', Eichstätt 1937.
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1568 births
1638 deaths
17th-century Italian historians
Italian male non-fiction writers
17th-century Italian male writers
17th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians
Capuchins