GUARINO  , also known as VARINUS, and surnamed from his birthplace

FAVORINUS, PHAVORINUS Or CAMERS (e . 1450- 1537), Italian lexicographer and scholar, was born at Favera near Camerino, studied Greek and Latin at Florence under Politian, and afterwards became for a time the pupil of Lascaris . Having entered the Benedictine order, he now gave himself with great zeal to Greek lexicography; and in 1496 published his Thesaurus cornucopiae et horti Adonidis, a collection of thirty-four grammatical tracts in Greek . He for some time acted as tutor to Giovanni dei Medici (afterwards Leo X.), and also held the appointment of keeper of the Medicean library at Florence . In 1514 Leo appointed him bishop of Nocera . In 1517 he published a translation of the A pophthegmata of Joannes Stobaeus, and in 1523 appeared his Etymologicum magnum, sive thesaurus universae linguae Graecae ex multis variisque autoribus collect us, a compilation which has been frequently reprinted, and which has laid subsequent scholars under great though not always acknowledged obligations .