Basilio Zanchi

Basilio Zanchi
Giovanni Battista Moroni. Portrait of Basilio Zanchi
Born	1501  Bergamo
Died	1558  (aged 56–57) Rome
Occupation	Renaissance humanist
Family	Giovanni Crisostomo Zanchi

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

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).
• Basilio Zanchi entry (in Italian) by Luigi Fassò in the Enciclopedia Treccani, 1937