GUARINO (GUARINUS) DA VERONA one of the Italian restorers of classical learning, was born in 13 7o at Verona, and studied Greek at Constantinople, where for five years he was the pupil of Manuel Chrysolaras. On his return to Italy brought back a number of Greek mss. He supported himself as a teacher of Greek; in 1436 he became, through the patronage of Lionel, marquis of Este, professor of Greek at Fer rara ; 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 Dec. 14, 146o.
His principal works are translations of Strabo and of some of the Lives of Plutarch, a compendium of the Greek grammar, of Chryso laras, 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 (18o5- o6) ; Sabbadini, Guarino Veronese (1885) ; Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol. ii. (1908) ; Epistolario de Guarino Veronese (2 vols. and commentary) in Miscellanea di Storia Veneta, 8, II, 14