Basilio Zanchi

Basilio Zanchi (c. 1501 – 1558) was a 16th-century Italian humanist and scholar.

Giovanni Battista Moroni. Portrait of Basilio Zanchi

Zanchi was born in Bergamo. He wrote his poetry in Latin and was a canon in Letran and later a Vatican librarian.

He was imprisoned in Rome because he disobeyed the Pope Paul VI, probably because he accepted some Protestantism theories. He died at Castel Sant'Angelo.

Works

De Horto Sophiæ, 1540
Poematum libri VIII, 1550
Verborum latinorum ex variis auctoribus Epitome, 1541
Dictionarium poeticum, 1542
In divinos libros Notationes, 1556.

Sources

Bouillet, Marie-Nicolas; Chassang, Alexis, eds. (1878). "Basile Zanchi". Dictionnaire Bouillet (in French).

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