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GUARINO [GUARINUS] DA See also: Italian restorers of classical learning, was See also: born in 1370 at See also: Verona, and studied See also: Greek at Constantinople, where for five years he was the pupil of See also: Manuel Chrysoloras
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When he set out on his return to See also: Italy he was the happy possessor of two cases of 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 hair turned See also: grey in a single See also: night
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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, See also: marquis of See also: Este, 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
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He died at Ferrara on the 14th of See also: December 146o
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His See also: principal See also: works are See also: translations of See also: Strabo and of some of the Lives of Plutarch, a compendium of the Greek grammar of Chrysoloras, and a series of commentaries on See also: Persius, Juvenal, See also: Martial and on some of the writings of See also: Aristotle and See also: Cicero
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See Rosmini, Vita e disciplina di Guarino (1805–1806); Sabbadini, Guarino Veronese (1885) ; Sandys, Hist
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Class
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Schol. ii
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