GUARINO, also known as VARINUS, and surnamed from his birthplace FAVORINUS, PHAVORINUS or CAMERS (C. Italian lexicographer and scholar, was born at Favera near erino, studied Greek and Latin at Florence under Politian, and afterwards became for a time the pupil of Lascaris. Having entered the Benedictine Order, he devoted himself to Greek cography; and in 1496 published his Thesaurus cornucopias et horti Adonidis, a collection of 34 grammatical tracts in Greek. For some time he was tutor to Giovanni dei Medici (afterwards Leo X.), and also keeper of the Medicean library at Florence. In 1514 Leo appointed him bishop of Nocera. In 1517 he lished a translation of the Apophthegmata of Joannes Stobaeus, and in 1523 appeared his Etymologicum magnum, sive thesaurus universae linguae Graecae ex multis variisque autoribus collectus, a compilation which has been frequently reprinted.