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GUARINO [GUARINUS] DA VERONA (1370-1460)

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GUARINO
GUARINO [GUARINUS] DA VERONA (1370-1460)

GUARINO [GUARINUS] DA See also:
VERONA
VERONA, CONGRESS OF
VERONA (1370-1460) , one of the See also:

ITALIAN

Italian restorers of classical learning, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1370 at Verona, and studied See also:

Greek at See also:

Constantinople, where for five years he was the See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

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 (O. Fr. precios, mod. precieux, Lat. pretiosus, of high value or price, pretium)

precious Greek See also:

MSS

MSS. which he had been at See also:

GREAT

great pains to collect; it is said that the loss of one of these by shipwreck caused him such See also:

DISTRESS

distress that his See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair turned See also:

grey in a single See also:

NIGHT

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

marquis of See also:

Este, See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of Greek at See also:

FERRARA

Ferrara; and in 1438 and following years he acted as interpreter for the Greeks at the See also:

COUNCILS

councils of Ferrara and Florence. He died at Ferrara on the 14th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 146o. His See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

WORKS

works are See also:

TRANSLATIONS

translations of See also:

STRABO (born c. 63 n.c.)

Strabo and of some of the Lives of See also:

Plutarch, a compendium of the Greek See also:

GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar of Chrysoloras, and a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of commentaries on See also:

PERSIUS

Persius, See also:

JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS) (c. 60-140)

Juvenal, See also:

MARTIAL (MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS)

Martial and on some of the writings of See also:

Aristotle and See also:

CICERO

Cicero. See Rosmini, Vita e disciplina di Guarino (1805–1806); Sabbadini, Guarino Veronese (1885) ; See also:

Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol. ii. (1908).

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