Ansonio Franchi, an Italian philosopher, whose real name is Francesco Bonavino, born at Pegli, in the province of Genoa, in 1820. Having adopted rationalistic views, he left in 1849 the priesthood and an institution over which he presided at Genoa, and in 1852 published La filosofia delle scuole italiane, in opposition to the doctrines of Rosmini, Gioberti, and Mamiani, and in favor of the French philosophers of the 18th century. His treatise Lareligione del secolo XIX. (1853), his review, La Ragione, established in 1854, and I braziona-Iismo del popolo (1855), indicate his adherence to Feuerbach, Comte, and other positivists, and expound humanitarian and rationalistic views of religion and civilization; and in his Bel sentimento (1854) he makes sensation the basis of all psychological faculties. Among his more recent publications are Lezioni sulla storm della filosofia moderna (1863), and Sulla teoria del giudizio (1871). He has been for some time professor of the philosophy of history in the university of Pavia.