Bonaventura cavalieri biography

View four larger pictures. Biography Bonaventura Cavalieri was given the name Francesco when he was born. His father's name was Bonaventura Cavalieri but when Francesco joined the religious order of the Jesuati in Milan in he took the name Bonaventura. He is always known by that name. The religious order of the Jesuati, which he joined, was founded by Giovanni Colombini of Siena and his friend Francesco Miani in Originally the Jesuati cared for those afflicted with the Black Death, but the order recruited fewer as time went on.

In an attempt was made to encourage more young men to join.

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Although they had some success in recruiting, and in particular Cavalieri joined, nevertheless the order eventually failed and was dissolved by pope Clement IX in The order was named Jesuati because their sermons always began and ended with the name of 'Jesus' being shouted out. As a Jesuati, Cavalieri would have always worn sandals and flagellated himself daily.

After a year in Milan, in he transferred to the Jesuati monastery in Pisa, the San Girolamo monastery, where, except for one year spent in Florence in around , he remained until