Guarino guarini biography for kids
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Guarino Guarini (1374-1460) was one of the most revered educators and humanists of the early Italian Renaissance. He was best known as the headmaster of a famous humanistic school at the court of the duke of Ferrara. Though born into a poor family, he received an excellent Latin education in his native Verona and then at Padua and Venice. When the Byzantine teacher Manuel Chrysoloras passed through Venice in 1403, Guarino followed him to Constantinople and spent five years studying there (1403-1408). After he returned to Italy about 1408, he struggled to establish himself as a teacher in Florence or Venice. In 1418 he married a wealthy woman of Verona. With the backing of his wife's family, he opened a successful boarding school in Verona and in 1420 was hired by the city to lecture on rhetoric and newly discovered works of Cicero.
In 1429 Guarino accepted an invitation of the ruler of Ferrara to become tutor to the heir to the throne, on condition that the court school also be
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Guarino Guarini facts for kids
For the early Renaissance writer, see Guarino da Verona.
Camillo Guarino Guarini (17 January 1624 – 6 March 1683) was an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque, active in Turin as well as Sicily, France, and Portugal. He was a Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer. His work represents the ultimate achievement of Italian Baroque structural engineering, creating in stone what could be attempted today in reinforced concrete.
Biography
Guarini was born in Modena in 1624. Following the chosen path of his eldest brother Eugenio, Guarino entered the Theatine Order as a novitiate on the twenty-seventh of November, 1639 at the age of fifteen. He spent his novitiate at the monastery of San Silvestro al Quirinale in Rome, where he studied architecture, theology, philosophy and mathematics. During Guarini's Roman years, Francesco Borromini and Gian Lorenzo Bernini created the buildings and sculpture which defined the Roman Baroque style. From Borr
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Scientist of the Day - Guarino Guarini
Guarino Guarini was born Jan. 17, 1634 in Modena, Italy and lived to age 59. He was the most prominent architect of his time in Northern Italy, creating an architecture intended to inflame spiritual passions, which was a goal of the Catholic Counter-reformation esthetic culture of the time. And beyond his architectural work, he was a prominent engineer, mathematician, philosopher, and cosmologist. He advocated for the integration of art and science, to create the richest emotional forms of buildings. His architectural approach may best be understood in this quote from him: The magic of wondrous mathematicians shines brightly in the marvelous and truly regal architecture.
Our first image shows the interior of the dome of his magnum opus, the Chapel of the Holy Shroud (Santa Sindone) in Turin, Italy, to give some reality to his words. I shot this photograph in 2019 just after its reopening, after being closed for 28 years due to a disastrous