Bongiovanni (Or Bonjohannes) Antonio,
a learned Italian writer, was born at Perrarolo, near Verona, about 1712. He studied at Padua. Together with Antonio Maria Zanetti, he catalogued the Greek, Latin, and Italian MSS. in the library of St. Mark at Venice (Venice, 1740, fol.). He also translated from the Greek into Latin the works of the monk Leontius, of Jerusalem, entitled Qucedam ad Historiam Ecclesiast. Spectantia. The time of his death is unknown. See Biog. Universelle, 5, 104; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.