Francesco Barberino Benici

Francesco Barberino Benici (1642 to 1702) was an Italian mathematician, counted among the first popularizers of mathematics for shopkeepers, together with Elia Del Re, Christopher Clavius and Domenico Griminelli. His Aritmetica prattica, a practical arithmetic written in Italian, was published at Palermo by Ignazio Calatro in 1697. The English Wikipedia article says little else about his life, so this entry rests on that article's lead and on its listing of his book, and it records him as one of the writers who taught arithmetic to the merchant class in seventeenth-century Italy.