Persons known by name
Zanchi, Basilio
Basilio Zanchi [Zancho]
- Bergamo 1501 – Rome 1558
- mentioned in a letter by Orsini (cited in [Egio 1555]) as a member of the Matal's network in Rome.
- Zanchi came to Rome under Leo X and was supported by Leo for his distinguished Latin.
- He was a member (?) of the (old) Accademia Romana.
- His commentaries on Latin Epiteths – Basilii Zanchi Bergomatis Epithetorum commentarii. Index eorum quæ in hisce commentariis extra literarum ordinem continentur – was published in 1542 with Antonio Blado.
- Also, his commentary on Hieronymus, dedicated to Bembo (Basilii Zanchi In 4. Regum, et 2. Paralipomenon libros quaestiones ad Hieronymum Saulium archiepiscopum Bariensem. Eiusdem heroicis versibus lib. 2. de horto sophiae ad Petrum Bembum card) was published by Blado in 1548.
- He copied the Codex Agrimensorum then owned by Angelo Colocci; Zanchi's copy was later copied, extended and annotated between 1544 and 1545 in Florence by Jean Matal. (Matal's work with different copies of the Codex influenced its reception in France and, partly, the first edition from 1553/54.
- according to Andreas Schott SJ in [Agustín 1765: I, XVIII] regular guest in Agustín's house in Rome: "Cum enim domicilium Romæ Antonius haberet, pontificiarum caussarum judex aequissimus,& quasi rerum ac fortunarum suarum sedem ibi, si arbitratu suo perpetuo vivere licuisset, horis subsecivis, quibus a negotiis publicis laxamenti aliquid dabatur ad corporis animique relaxationem, cum eruditissimis hominibus, qui domum ejus assidue discendi gratia frequentabant, Octavio Pantagatho, Gabriele Faerno, Bafilio Zancho, Onuphrio Panvinio, Pyrrho Ligorio, Paulo Manutio Aldi F. Carolo Sigonio, & qui hodie vivunt, Latino Latinio & Fulvio Ursino, Metello item Sequano, qui XI. ipsòs annos in illius, contubernio jucundissime vixit, cæterisque domi suae, quæ illis oraculum, verius Delphico, esse videbatur, de urbis Romæ antiquitatibus, inscriptionibus, numismatis, rerum gestarum memoria, & scriptoribus antiquis Græcis atque Latinis, omnique adeo philologia & interioribus litteris libenter disserebat, & inftar apis undique decerpebat, quibus Spartam, quod ajunt, illustraret suam."
- 1557 Zanchi was put in jail because of his heterodox theological thinking, where he died 1558.
