Natale Bonifacio

In 1590, he engraved for a book composed by Domenico Fontana, architect to Pope Sixtus V, concerning the laborious engineering of the moving and erection of the Vatican obelisk.

On 5 July 1579, Bonifacio was received into the congregation of Saint Jerome of the Croats (degli Schiavoni), becoming the guardian on 10 April 1580, a mayor auditor in 1582, and a chamberlain in 1583.

The next year - due to some errors in the compilation of the accounts - he was forced to repay the damage affecting copper by Christmas of 1586 of two images of St. Jerome for the candles to be offered to the pope on the feast of Candlemas.

In 1589, Boniface was second guardian of the Brotherhood, when he had to go back to Sebenico to assist his sick mother, leaving his wife Maddalena in Rome with their children.

In 1590, he engraved for a book composed by Domenico Fontana, architect to Pope Sixtus V, concerning the laborious engineering of the moving and erection of the Vatican obelisk.

Delle allvsioni , by Natale Bonifacio
Late 16th century map by Natale Bonifacio