GUARINO [GUARINUS] DA

See also:

• VERONA
• VERONA, CONGRESS OF

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