Francesco Maria Bovio

[1] Francesco Maria Bovio was born in Altamura in the 1750s to a family of landowners; the exact date of birth is currently unknown.

After winning a public competition for the position of teacher, he taught Latin and Ancient Greek in the "Royal Schools" (Italian: Reali scuole) of Matera, Italy.

[1][2] In the period of 1806-1815 (with the French kings Giuseppe Bonaparte and Gioacchino Murat ruling over the Kingdom of Naples), he was appointed judge (giudice interino di pace).

In 1821, he became a judge of the civil court of Lecce but after a few years he returned to Trani because of his age and there he died in 1830.

[4] During the upheavals of the Neapolitan Republic of 1799, Bovio became minister of the Republican Departmental Government.