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GUARINO [GUARINUS] DA VERONA (1370-1460)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 660 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUARINO [GUARINUS] DA See also:VERONA (1370-1460)  , one of the See also:Italian restorers of classical learning, was See also:born in 1370 at See also:Verona, and studied See also:Greek at See also:Constantinople, where for five years he was the See also:pupil of See also:Manuel Chrysoloras . When he set out on his return to See also:Italy he was the happy possessor of two cases of See also:precious Greek See also:MSS. which he had been at See also:great pains to collect; it is said that the loss of one of these by shipwreck caused him such See also:distress that his See also:hair turned See also:grey in a single See also:night . He supported himself as a teacher of Greek, first at Verona and afterwards in See also:Venice and .See also:Florence; in 1436 he became, through the patronage of Lionel, See also:marquis of See also:Este, See also:professor of Greek at See also:Ferrara; and in 1438 and following years he acted as interpreter for the Greeks at the See also:councils of Ferrara and Florence . He died at Ferrara on the 14th of See also:December 146o . His See also:principal See also:works are See also:translations of See also:Strabo and of some of the Lives of See also:Plutarch, a compendium of the Greek See also:grammar of Chrysoloras, and a See also:series of commentaries on See also:Persius, See also:Juvenal, See also:Martial and on some of the writings of See also:Aristotle and See also:Cicero . See Rosmini, Vita e disciplina di See also:Guarino (1805–1806); Sabbadini, Guarino Veronese (1885) ; See also:Sandys, Hist . Class . Schol. ii . (1908) .

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