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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