 Ludovik Tuberon Crijević, writing of Pannonius, says that he was born a Slav ("genere itidem Sclavenum") in that part of interior Dalmatia that lies between the Sava and Drava rivers.Pannonius was brought up by his mother; in 1447 his uncle sent him to Italy for a humanist schooling.He attended the School of Guarino da Verona at Ferrara, where the pupils were educated in Latin and Greek authors under the guidance of a noted teacher of the Italian Renaissance.