BUONANNI, Filippo. - Jesuit, born in Rome on 7 January 1638, died there on 30 March 1725. He served as librarian and archivist of the Collegio Romano and distinguished himself in numismatics and statistics. His principal work is *Numismata summorum pontificum templi Vaticani fabricant indicantia* (Rome 1696), undertaken at the suggestion of Monsignor Ciampini (q.v.); it is the first history of the great Basilica and is adorned with numerous plates.
Equally richly illustrated are his useful works *Numismata pontificum romanorum a tempore Martini V* (Rome 1699); *Ordinum religiosorum catalogus* (ibid. 1706); *Ordinum equestrium et militarium catalogus* (ibid. 1711); *La gerarchia ecclesiastica considerata nelle vesti sagre e civili* (ibid. 1720); *Catalogus provinciarum Societatis Iesu* (ibid. 1679).