About Battista Guarino
Lived 1434 – 1503 (aged 68–69). Battista Guarino was an educator, classical philologist, rhetorician and humanist.
Battista Guarino (; 1434–1513(?)) was the youngest son of Guarino da Verona. He was one of the most significant humanists of his time in northern Italy. Guarino was also an active teacher. He is the presumed author of the ballad Alda.
Literature Daniela Bermond (Bremen, Germany): Der Stellenwert rhetorischer Bildung in humanistischen ‚Lehrplänen’ von Battista Guarino dem Jüngeren bis zu Castiglione (German, The value of rhetorical education in human curricula from Battista Guarino the Younger until Castiglione)
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Who was Battista Guarino?
Italian humanist (1434-1503)
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Battista Guarino was born in 1434 in Ferrara.
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Battista Guarino died in 1503 in Ferrara.
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Battista Guarino was an educator, classical philologist, rhetorician and humanist.
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