Giovanni Boveri (Boverius) (
Saluzzo, 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
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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
17th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians
Capuchins