Guarino da Verona

Guarino da Verona (1374–1460) was an Italian Renaissance humanist and a pioneer of Greek studies in Italy. Born in Verona, he spent five years in Constantinople learning Greek under Manuel Chrysoloras, returning in 1408 with Greek manuscripts; it was said that losing one case of them in a shipwreck turned his hair grey overnight.

He taught Greek in Verona, Venice and Florence before becoming professor at Ferrara in 1436 under Marquis Leonello d'Este. He interpreted for Byzantine envoys at the councils of Ferrara and Florence, translated Strabo and some of Plutarch's Lives, and compiled a Greek grammar.