ACCLIAUOLI, ZANOBI

ZANOBI ACCIAIUOLI. — Prefect of the Vatican Library, born in Florence on 25 May 1461, died in Rome in 1519 or 1520. After returning to Florence at the age of sixteen, following the exile suffered by his entire family from 1464 to 1478, he had as his teachers, and later as friends, the most illustrious men of his time, including particularly Poliziano and Marsilio Ficino. He took the Dominican habit on 8 December 1495 in the convent of S. Marco and devoted himself to ecclesiastical studies. In 1518, Leo X appointed him prefect of the Vatican Library and entrusted him with the task of compiling a new inventory of the library. He also made an index of the secret archives preserved in Castel S. Angelo. He wrote numerous works in Latin and translated many from Greek. He was buried in S. Maria sopra Minerva.