“Tu mare frænantes Venetōs, tu Antenoris alti Instituis cives, tua te Verona legentem, Finis et Italiæ stupuit sublime Tridentum; Nec jam flumineum referens Florentia nomen, Ac Phæbo quondam, nunc sacra Bononia Marti; Tandem mansurum placidâ statione recepit Pacis et aligeri Ferraria mater amoris.” Ferrara was the last abode of Guarino. After having resided many years in that city under the protection of the Marquis d’Este, he there terminated a life of literary labour, in the year 1460, at the advanced age of ninety. Bartolomeo Facio, who had been of the number of his pupils, made mention of him during his lifetime in the following flattering terms. “Artem Rhetoricam profitetur, quâ in re supra quinque et triginta annos se exercuit. Ab hoc uno plures docti et eloquentes viri facti sunt quam a ceteris omnibus hujus ordinis, ut non immerito quidam de eo dixerit quod de Isocrate dictum ferunt, plures ex ejus scholâ viros eruditos, quam ex equo Trojano milites prodiisse—Ejus quoque præstantiæ singulare testimonium est Epigramma hoc nobile Antonii Panormitæ editum ab illo quum vitâ functum audivisset.” “Quantum Romulidæ sanctum videre Catonem, Quantum Cepheni volitantem Persea cœlo, Alciden Thebe pacantem viribus orbem, Tantum læta suum vidit Verona Guarinum.” _Tiraboschi Storia della Letter. Ital., tom. vi. p. 255 & seq._—_Facius de Viris Illustr., p. 18._ [84] _Poggii Opera, p. 305._ [85] Gasperino Barziza was a native of Bergamo, and was one of that numerous assemblage of scholars, who were indebted for their knowledge of the Latin tongue to John of Ravenna. He read lectures on Rhetoric, first at Padua, and afterwards at Milan. His writings are not numerous: they consist of a treatise on Orthography; another on Elegance of Composition; various Orations and Letters; and a commentary on the Epistles of Seneca. In undertaking to supply the deficiencies which occurred in Cicero’s treatise de Oratore, in consequence of the mutilated condition of the ancient copies of that elegant and useful work, he evinced a temerity of spirit which nothing but the most able execution of his task could have justified. Happily however for the admirers of ancient eloquence, the labours of Gasperino were rendered useless, by the discovery of a complete copy of the work in question, made by the Bishop of Lodi. It appears however that he had actually enlarged, by supplementary chapters, the imperfect copies of _Quintilian’s Institutes_. These were also superseded by the labours of Poggio in search of ancient manuscripts. Several of Gasperino’s letters were edited by Josepho Alessandro Furietti, and published at Rome, in 4to. A. D. 1733.—_Mehi Vita Ambros. Travers., p. xl. xlvi._—_Agostini Scrittori Viniz., tom. i. p. 20, tom. xi. p. 8. Facius de Viris illus., p. 28._