Bentivolio and Urania

Bentivoglio and Urania is an English prose historical romance and religious allegory. It was written by the clergyman Nathaniel Ingelo, and published from 1660 by Richard Marriot. It is identified as a Puritan work of fiction. Regarded as an unsuccessful imitation of the Argenis of John Barclay, from four decades earlier, it has also been thought a possible source of inspiration for the Pilgrim's Progress (1678) of John Bunyan.

The allegorical plot was intended to depict a concept of the human soul based on the traditions of Christian mysticism, to criticize the political ideas of Thomas Hobbes and his followers, and to defend the Puritan political idea of theocracy.