Barbaro family
Ermolao Barbaro was born into the Venetian Barbaro family, the son of Zaccaria Barbaro and nephew to Francesco Barbaro. around the year 1410. As a child, he studied the Greek language with Guarino Veronese. When he was 12 years old he made a Latin translation of 33 of Aesop's Fables. Barbaro studied at the University of Padua, where he graduated in 1425. Among his teachers was Guarino Guarini.