BONAVENTURA BELLUTI. — A most learned philosopher and skeptical theologian of the Conventual Franciscans, born in Catania around 1600 and died on 18 May 1676. He studied theology at the College of St. Bonaventure in Rome, where his fellow student was the renowned Father Mastrio. Beyond being colleagues in study and later in teaching at Cesena, Perugia, and Padua, these two theologians were also kindred spirits, so much so that it seemed «they spoke the same language, wrote with the same pen, and speculated with the same intellect» (Hutter, IV, col. 10). Together they composed the *Philosophiae ad mentem Scoti Cursus integer* (5 vols., 1st ed., Venice 1637), a treasure trove of Scotist philosophy, justly compared to the theology of the Salmanticenses. Belluti later served as provincial minister of Sicily (1645–48) and there as consultant to the Royal Inquisition.
He wrote: *Disputationes de Incarnatione Dominica ad mentem Scoti* (Catania 1645); *Liber Moraliurn opusculorum atque Resolutionum miscellaneo apparatu digestorum* (ibid. 1679, posthumous); and *De sacramento Eucharistiae* (manuscript).