Zanobi Acciaioli (25 May 1461 – 27 July 1519) was an ItalianDominican friar, a member of theAcciaioli family ofFlorence. He wasLibrarian of the Vatican underLeo X. He joined the Dominican convent on 8 December 1495. He learnedGreek andHebrew towards the latter part of his life, and was appointed in 1518 prefect of the Vatican Library.
Acciaioli worked mainly on translatingAncient Greek texts, includingOlympiodorus onEcclesiastes, a treatise ofEusebius againstHierocles, andTheodoret'sCure of the false Opinions of the Gentiles, and some other pieces. He died at the age of 58 in Rome.
In addition to his translations, Acciaiuoli also wrote apanegyric on the city ofNaples; aLiber de vindicta Dei contra peccatores; and poems.
Acciaiuoli's own copy of his translation of Eusebius is in the Vatican Library. It includes corrections and annotations by him, and is signed on the title page, "F. Zenobii Acciolj".
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Aikin, John (1815).General Biography. Ten volumes.