| Guarino Of Verona |
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| italian renaissance humanists | |
| people from verona | |
| 1370 births | |
| 1460 deaths | |
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He was born at Verona , and studied Greek at Constantinople , where for five years he was the pupil of Manuel Chrysoloras . When he set out to return to Italy , he had with him two cases of precious Greek manuscripts which he had taken 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. On arriving back in Italy, he earned a living 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 later acted as interpreter for the Greeks at the councils of Ferrara and Florence. He died at Ferrara 1460 . 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 . REFERENCES AND LINKS |
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