Battista Guarino

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Battista Guarino ( Latinized Baptista Guarinus ; * 1434 ; † 1513 ) was the youngest son of Guarino da Verona , whose role as one of the most renowned humanists , educators and Graecists of the Italian Renaissance steered future priorities in the life and work of his son Guarino.

Guarino worked as a teacher and taught Isabella d'Este , among others . At the age of 21 he took over a rhetoric chair in Bologna in 1455. After the death of his father in 1460 he took over his chair in Ferrara. He now devoted himself intensively to the emendation of ancient authors. The Catullus edition with his annotations, which his son Alexander Guarinus had his son Alexander Guarinus printed in Venice in 1521, has received attention to this day and is widely cited in text-critical discussions of the Catullus Edition . His pupil Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus) reports on Guarini's outstanding moral authority, extraordinary education and outstanding lecture success in his writer catalog Dialogi duo de poetis nostrorum temporum I, 97 , published in 1551 .

His work De ordine docendi et studendi ("On the order of teaching and learning"), which he completed in 1459, is one of the trend-setting pedagogical and educational theoretical writings of Renaissance humanism, insofar as, following his father Guarino da Verona and his friend Manuel Chrysolaras, he also emphasized how the study of Greek is important. 15 editions between 1474 and 2002 testify to the enormous influence of this font.

Guarini also wrote poetry. The ballad Alda , which is also read in Germany , is attributed to his father Guarino da Verona by the printer Pamphilus Gengenbach (Basel 1517) , but research tends to identify the authorship either for Tito Vespasiano Strozzi - whose name appears in some handwritten sources - or for Lippius Platesius Ferrariensis supposed.

Editions and translations

  • Baptista Guarinus [...]: De ordine docendi et studendi. In: Craig W. Kallendorf (Ed.): Humanist Educational Treatises. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2002, ISBN 0-674-00759-X , pp. 260–309 (Latin text and English translation)

literature

  • Dizionario biografico degli italiani . Volume 60, pp. 339-345.
  • Anthony Grafton , Lisa Jardine : Humanism and the School of Guarino: a Problem of Evaluation. In: Past and Present. 96, 1982, pp. 51-80.
  • Anthony Grafton, Lisa Jardine: From Humanism to the Humanities. Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Ma. 1986.
  • Daniela Bermond: The importance of rhetorical education in humanistic 'curricula' from Battista Guarino the Younger to Castiglione. Lecture at the Italianist Day of the German Association of Italianists. Tuebingen 2004.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Lilio Gregorio Giraldo: Modern Poets I, 97. Edited and translated by John N. Grant (I Tatti Renaissance Library 48). Cambridge, Ma./London: Harvard University Press 2011, p. 60.
  2. ↑ Guarino Veronese: Alda Guarini Veronensis, Basel 1517 .
personal data
SURNAME Guarino, Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Humanist in Northern Italy
DATE OF BIRTH 1434
DATE OF DEATH 1513