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.

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