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Bonaventure's Breviloquium, a concise systematic presentation of Christian theology in a prologue and seven parts. Latin transcription from the Quaracchi critical edition, Opera omnia, tomus V (1882), pp. 201-291.

A brief prefatory introduction to the books of Peter Lombard's Sentences, organized around the scriptural image of the circuit of heaven and transmitted with an editorial argument on circumincession.

Bonaventure's De reductione artium ad theologiam from the Quaracchi critical edition, Opera omnia t. V (1891), pp. 317-325.

Bonaventure's Itinerarium mentis in Deum (1259): the soul's six-step ascent to God through his footprints in the sensible world, his image reformed by grace, and the divine Being and Good, crowned by mystical ecstasy. Latin: Quaracchi critical text; English: Thomas Davidson's 1887 translation improved with AI.

Bonaventure's Lignum vitae (Tree of Life): forty-eight meditations on the life, passion, and glorification of Christ, ordered as twelve fruits on a mystical tree, with a closing prayer for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. Latin: Quaracchi critical text; English: new ScholaThomistica translation.

Bontempi's Palladium theologicum (Lyon 1676) is a complete scholastic theology composed ad mentem D. Bonaventurae, arranged in seven tractatus on the order of the Secunda secundae. This fifth volume, De virtutibus, treats the theological virtues (faith, hope, charity, with their gifts, beatitudes and fruits), the cardinal virtues and their opposite vices, and the states and offices of men (religious and prelates, bishops, princes), including the extensive disputations on contracts, religion, vows, fortitude, temperance and the judicial process. It is a significant example of the Bonaventurian scholastic school and a counterpart to the Thomist manuals of the period.