BUONPENSIERE, ENRICO. – Dominican theologian, born in Terlizzi on 26 October 1853, died in Rome on 18 January 1929. He successively taught dogmatic and moral theology; he was prior of the Minerva (1894–97) and regent of the college of S. Tommaso in Rome (1897–1910). When the Angelico college opened (1910), he suspended his teaching, which he resumed three years later at the Lateran Athenaeum. He was theologian of the Apostolic Dataria and consultor to the Congregations of Studies, of the Index, and of Propaganda Fide.
He wrote an extensive and subtle commentary on the Summa of S. Tommaso, but published only two volumes of it, comprising the treatises De Deo uno (Rome 1902) and De Trinitate (Vergara 1930), published posthumously.
BIBL.: I. Taurisano, P. E. B., in Memorie Domenicane, 46 (1929), pp. 83–85; cf. also Memorie Domenicane, 28 (1911), p. 45; 43 (1926), pp. 456–57; Necrologium, in Analecta s. ord. Praed., 37 (1929), pp. 124–26. Alfonso D'Amato