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BLMU MVIP MU STRVIGVIH F[ RTMKMQEO GRS[TMKLV STUDIES IN THE LIFE, SCHOLARSHIP, AND

EDUCATIONALACHIEVEMENT OF GUARINO

DA VERONA(1374-"1h60)

by

Ian Thomson

Submitted June 1968 for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of St. Andreeve

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`"Ja .ý I oý, Xý> ýSi gý' , Jý""- a bý ý ,ý; L TA13LE OF CONTENTS

Page Xntroduotlon

1. Lif o of Guarino da Verona (3.374-1460)

2. Transrniool. on and text of the letters of Guarino 301

3. Gumrtno's letteroe in what oenso are they "familiar"? 31Q

4" GU=Ino's Latin atYie anc3 orthography 339 5" The letters written in Greek a69 6. Guarirno'8 attitude to history and historiography 346 Guarino and humour 410

8. Guarino as a figure in oontrovers7 41

9" Guarino and humanistic education 411 10. Summaries and translations of tho letters bob 11. Appendix As Translations with notes, of Lodovico carbon's funeral oration on Guarino (lob©) II94

12. Appendix Br Translation, with notes, of the speech of the Anonymous Panegyrist (1424) 1217 33. Appendix G: List of citations from classical authors in Guarino's letters. 1147 Bibliography AQKNOLLDGEXM S

I gratefully acknowledge the assistance given to as in the preparation of this study by Professor J. W. L.

Adams of the Department of Education. More then once his wide knovledge of Renaissance education and his excellent scholarship in Latin and Greek saved me from serious error.

For any inelegances and errors in this final version I am alone responsible. But above all, I thank him for his unfailing kindness,, taatq and patience. Slightly to adapt the words of the Elder Pliny, "gratum est fateri per quem profecerim".

I must also thank Mr colleague at Indiana University

Professor Aubrey Diller, with whom I have spent many delight..

ful and instructive hours in discussing the history of MSS.,

particularly those of Strabo.

iii DECLARATIONBY CANDIDATE

I declare that this thesis is of my own composition and that the work of which it is a record was done by igpself; further, that this thesis has not been accepted in any previous application for a higher degree.

T further state that I was admitted as a research student for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy as from October, 1960, under Ordinances 16 and 61 of Ordinance General 12 of the

University of St. Andrews.

Ian Thomson

GTATEMENTBY SUPERVISOR

I certify that the conditionsoot the Ordinance and

Regulations have been fulfilled by the candidate.

iv INTROWCTION

This study of Guarino da Verona was undertaken for two main reasons.

First, there exists in English no full-length study of his life and

achievement in education and scholarship. The primary sources of evidence

are in Latin, Greek, or Italian of the fifteenth century, while the vast

bulk of secondary materials, in the way of biography and critical comment

on Guarino"s works, is in Italian. Since these languages are unknown,

or imperfectly known, to many students of history or education, the entire

contents of Guarino's epistolary have been rendered into English either in

summary or, in the case of certain letters, in translation. Thus Guarino's

most significant body of written work and one of the most interesting

documents of the early Renaissance is nov available for use by those who

are not linguists.

The summaries are broken into numbered sections for convenience of