Basilio Zanchi

Basilio Zanchi ( – 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.