BOCCHI, GIROLAMO. - Scholar, often and wrongly called “Boutrius,” “Bourti,” etc., born in Florence around 1595. He was first a Conventual Franciscan, then, at the age of twenty and for almost his whole life, a Capuchin (1614), finally returning (around 1655) to the Conventuals. He died during Holy Week, between 21 and 27 March 1660, at Pomarance (near Volterra), where he was preaching the Lenten sermons. Very well versed in biblical history, chronology, and cosmology, he was also a good preacher.
He is the author of a vast historical-biblical-theological encyclopedia: Monopanthon harmonicum et chronologicum... ex divinis et humanis litteris... compilata et ad normam psalterii decem chordarum coaptata..., divided into 2 parts and 10 books
(part 1, Bologna 1654; it is not known whether part 2 was printed), treating of chronology and biblical history (books 1 and 4), dogmatics, anthropology, cosmography, and universal geography. Other writings by him are mentioned on the history of heresies, on religious and military orders, on Le bellezze della città di Fiorenza, etc.