Marco Antonio Bonciari or Bonciario (9 February 1555 – 9 January 1616) was an Italian Renaissance scholar and writer.
Marco Antonio Bonciari was born at Antria, a small village near Perugia, on 9 February 1555.
[2] His patron Fulvio Giulio della Corgna appointed him director of the seminary that he had established in Perugia.
Bonciari was a member of the Accademia degli Insensati of Perugia, assuming the pseudonym of Terrestre.
[5] He was in active correspondence with famous scholars: the philologists Justus Lipsius and Erycius Puteanus, the cardinals Caesar Baronius, Robert Bellarmine and Silvio Antoniano, the humanists Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Mark Welser, Aldus Manutius the Younger and Girolamo Mercuriale, the poet Angelo Grillo and the jesuits Orazio Torsellino and Giovanni Pietro Maffei.