Battista Guarino

Battista Guarino (* 1434, † 1513, Latinized: Baptista Guarinus ) was the youngest son of Guarino da Verona, whose role as one of the most renowned humanists, educators and Hellenist of the Italian Renaissance vorlenkte future areas of focus in his son Guarino 's life and work.

Guarino worked as a teacher and taught, among other things Isabella d' Este. At the age of 21, he took over in 1455 a rhetoric Chair in Bologna. After the death of his father in 1460 he took over the chair in Ferrara. He devoted himself intensively to the emendation of ancient authors. To this day, respected and widely cited in text-critical discussions of Catullus Edition is the provided with his comments Catullus edition, which was printed in Venice in 1521, his son Alexander Guarinus. About Guarini superior moral authority, exceptional education and extraordinary success reports lecture his pupil Lilio Gregorio Giraldi ( Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus ) published in his 1551 catalog writers Dialogi duo de poetis nostrorum temporum I, 97

His 1459 completed work De ordine docendi et studendi ( On the order of teaching and learning ) is one of the pioneering educational and education- theoretical writings of Renaissance humanism, inasmuch as he da Verona and his friend Manuel Chrysolaras also emphasized after his father Guarino how important the study of Greek was. The enormous influence of this document testify 15 editions 1474-2002.

Guarini also wrote poems. The read also in Germany ballad Alda is the printer Pamphilus Gengenbach ( Basel 1517) his father Guarino da Verona attributed the authorship but rather by either the research for Tito Vespasian Strozzi - whose name appears in several manuscript sources - or for Lippius Platesius Ferrariensis suspected.

Editions, translations

• Alexandri Guarini Ferrariensis in CV Catullum Veronensem by Baptistam Patrem emendatum Expositiones cum indice. Venetiis 1521.
• De ordine docendi et studendi ( 1459 ) [lat -engl. ]. In: Craig W. Kallendorf (ed. ): Humanist Educational Treatises (I Tatti Renaissance Library 5). Cambridge, Ma. / London: Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 260-309.