Basilio Zanchi

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Basilio Zanchi
Giovanni Battista Moroni. Portrait of Basilio Zanchi
Born1501 Edit this on Wikidata
Bergamo Edit this on Wikidata
Died1558 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 56–57)
Rome Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationRenaissance humanist Edit this on Wikidata
FamilyGiovanni Crisostomo Zanchi Edit this on Wikidata

Basilio Zanchi (c. 1501 – 1558) was a 16th-century

Italian
humanist and scholar.

Zanchi was born in

Letran and later a Vatican librarian
.

He was imprisoned in

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.

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