Basilio Zanchi
Basilio Zanchi | |
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Giovanni Battista Moroni. Portrait of Basilio Zanchi | |
| Born | 1501 |
| Died | 1558 (aged 56–57) |
| Occupation | Renaissance humanist |
| Relatives | 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