FAVORINUS

favorinus, phavorinus or camers (c. 1450-1537), italian lexicographer and scholar, was born at favera near camerino, studied greek and latin at florence under politian, and afterwards became for a time the pupil of lascaris. having entered the benedictine order, he now gave himself with great zeal to greek lexicography; and in 1496 published his _thesaurus cornucopiae et horti adonidis_, a collection of thirty-four grammatical tracts in greek. he for some time acted as tutor to giovanni dei medici (afterwards leo x.), and also held the appointment of keeper of the medicean library at florence. in 1514 leo appointed him bishop of nocera. in 1517 he published a translation of the _apophthegmata_ of joannes stobaeus, and in 1523 appeared his _etymologicum magnum, sive thesaurus universae linguae graecae ex multis variisque autoribus collectus_, a compilation which has been frequently reprinted, and which has laid subsequent scholars under great though not always acknowledged obligations. guarino [guarinus] da verona (1370-1460), one of the italian restorers of classical learning, was born in 1370 at verona, and studied greek at constantinople, where for five years he was the pupil of manuel chrysoloras. when he set out on his return to italy he was the happy possessor of two cases of precious greek mss. which he had been at great pains to collect; it is said that the loss of one of these by shipwreck caused him such distress that his hair turned grey in a single night. he supported himself as a teacher of greek, first at verona and afterwards in venice and florence; in 1436 he became, through the patronage of lionel, marquis of este, professor of greek at ferrara; and in 1438 and following years he acted as interpreter for the greeks at the councils of ferrara and florence. he died at ferrara on the 14th of december 1460. his principal works are translations of strabo and of some of the _lives_ of plutarch, a compendium of the greek grammar of chrysoloras, and a series of commentaries on persius, juvenal, martial and on some of the writings of aristotle and cicero. see rosmini, _vita e disciplina di guarino_ (1805-1806); sabbadini, _guarino veronese_ (1885); sandys, _hist. class. schol._ ii. (1908).