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Guarino da Verona (1370 – December 14, 1460) was an early figure in the Italian Renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
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He was born in Verona, Italy
Italy

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 and later studied Greek
Greek language

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 at Constantinople
Constantinople

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, where for five years he was the pupil of Manuel Chrysoloras
Manuel Chrysoloras

Manuel Chrysoloras , one of the pioneers in introducing Greek language literature to Western Europe.He was born in Constantinople to a distinguished family, and was a pupil of Gemistus Pletho....
. When he set out to return home, he had with him two cases of precious Greek manuscripts which he had taken great pains to collect.






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Guarino Da Verona
Guarino da Verona (1370 – December 14, 1460) was an early figure in the Italian Renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
.

He was born in Verona, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 and later studied Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 at Constantinople
Constantinople

Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
, where for five years he was the pupil of Manuel Chrysoloras
Manuel Chrysoloras

Manuel Chrysoloras , one of the pioneers in introducing Greek language literature to Western Europe.He was born in Constantinople to a distinguished family, and was a pupil of Gemistus Pletho....
. When he set out to return home, 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 in Verona and afterwards in Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
 and Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
. In 1436, he became a professor of Greek at Ferrara through the patronage of Lionel,the marquis of Este. From 1438 on he interpreted for the Greeks at the councils of Ferrara and Florence. He died at Ferrara in 1460.

His principal works are translations of Strabo
Strabo

Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
 and of some of the Lives of Plutarch
Plutarch

Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. AD 46 ? 120 ? commonly known in English as Plutarch ? was a Ancient Rome historian , biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonism....
, a compendium of the Greek grammar of Chrysoloras, and a series of commentaries on Persius, Martial
Martial

Marcus Valerius Martialis , was a Latin language poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Ancient Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the Roman emperor Domitian, Nerva and Trajan....
, the Satires of Juvenal, and on some of the writings of Aristotle
Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
 and Cicero
Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Ancient Rome philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Constitution of the Roman Republic. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest rhetoric and prose stylists....
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