Giovanni Battista
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Giovanni Battista, was a common Italian given name (see Battista
for those with the surname) in the 16th-18th centuries, which in English means "John the Baptist
". The French variation is "Jean-Baptiste". Common nicknames include Giambattista, Gianbattista or Giovambattista. The Genoese nickname was Baciccio, and a common shortening was Giovan Battista, Giobatta or simply G.B.. The people listed below are Italian unless noted otherwise.
Battista
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for those with the surname) in the 16th-18th centuries, which in English means "John the Baptist
John the Baptist
John the Baptist was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus, who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River...
". The French variation is "Jean-Baptiste". Common nicknames include Giambattista, Gianbattista or Giovambattista. The Genoese nickname was Baciccio, and a common shortening was Giovan Battista, Giobatta or simply G.B.. The people listed below are Italian unless noted otherwise.
- Giovanni Battista AdrianiGiovanni Battista AdrianiGiovanni Battista Adriani was an Italian historian.He was born of a patrician family of Florence, and was secretary to the republic of Florence...
(c.1511–1579), historian. - Giovanni Battista Aleotti (1546–1636), architect.
- Giovanni Battista AmendolaGiovanni Battista Amendola-Life:He studied in Naples at the Academy of Fine Arts. Much of his work is to be seen in Naples, including a statue of Joachim Murat for the façade of the Royal Palace, a bust of architect Enrico Alvino in the grounds of the Villa Comunale...
(1848–1887), sculptor. - Giovanni Battista AmiciGiovanni Battista AmiciGiovanni Battista Amici was an Italian astronomer and microscopist.Amici was born in Modena, Italy. After studying at Bologna, he became professor of mathematics at Modena, and in 1831 was appointed inspector-general of studies in the Duchy of Modena...
(1786–1863), astronomer and microscopist. - Giovanni Battista AngiolettiGiovanni Battista AngiolettiGiovanni Battista Angioletti was a twentieth-century Italian writer and journalist.- Life :Angioletti was born in Milan in 1896 and was gifted with a lively and reflective intelligence...
, writer and journalist. - Giovanni Battista BallantiGiovanni Battista BallantiGiovanni Battista Ballanti , also known as Giovan Battista Ballanti Graziani, was an Italian sculptor working in the Neoclassic style....
(1762–1835), sculptor. - Giovanni Battista BarbianiGiovanni Battista BarbianiGiovanni Battista Barbiani was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Ravenna. Among his works are altarpieces of St. Andrew and St. Joseph for the Franciscan church. For the dome of the chapel of the Madonna del Sudore in the Cathedral of Ravenna, he painted a fresco of the...
(1593–1650), painter. - Giovanni Battista BeccariaGiovanni Battista BeccariaGiovanni Battista Beccaria , Italian physicist, was born at Mondovì, and entered the religious order of the Pious Schools in 1732, where he studied, and afterward taught, grammar and rhetoric...
(1716–1781), physicist. - Giovanni Battista BellandiGiovanni Battista BellandiGiovanni Battista Bellandi was an Italian sculptor, active in Milan for its elaborately decorated Cathedral....
, sculptor. - Giovanni Battista BelzoniGiovanni Battista BelzoniGiovanni Battista Belzoni , sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Venetian explorer of Egyptian antiquities.-Early life:...
(1778–1823), explorer. - Giovanni Battista BerneroGiovanni Battista BerneroGiovanni Battista Bernero was an Italian late-Baroque sculptor who worked, mainly in Piedmont, in a formalized restrained style, intermediate between baroque and Neoclassicism.He was born in Cavallerleone in Piedmont...
(1736–1796), sculptor. - Giovanni Battista BononciniGiovanni Battista BononciniGiovanni Battista Bononcini was an Italian Baroque composer and cellist, one of a family of string players and composers. His father, Giovanni Maria Bononcini , was a violinist and a composer.-Biography:...
(1670–1747), composer and cellist. - Giovanni Battista BrocchiGiovanni Battista BrocchiGiovanni Battista Brocchi was an Italian naturalist, mineralogist and geologist.He was born in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, and studied jurisprudence at the University of Padova, but his attention was turned to mineralogy and botany...
(1772–1826), mineralogist and geologist. - Giovanni Battista BugattiGiovanni Battista BugattiGiovanni Battista Bugatti was the official executioner for the Papal States from 1796 to 1865. He was the longest-serving executioner in the States and was nicknamed Mastro Titta, a Roman corruption of maestro di giustizia, or master of justice...
(1780–1869), executioner. - Giovanni Battista BuonamenteGiovanni Battista BuonamenteGiovanni Battista Buonamente was an Italian composer and violinist in the early Baroque era. He served the Gonzagas in Mantua until c. 1622, and from c. 1626 to 1630 served the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna. Notably, in 1627 he played for the coronation festivities...
(c.1595–1642), composer and violinist. - Giovanni Battista CacciniGiovanni Battista CacciniGiovanni Battista Caccini was an Italian sculptor from Florence, who worked in a classicising style in the later phase of Mannerism....
, sculptor. - Giovanni Battista CaporaliGiovanni Battista CaporaliGiovanni Battista Caporali was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.He was also called Bitti, a diminutive of his Christian name and by Vasari, Benedetto, was the son of Bartolommeo Caporali, and was born at Perugia...
(1476–1560), painter. - Giovanni Battista CapraraGiovanni Battista CapraraGiovanni Battista Caprara was an Italian statesman and cardinal, legate of Pius VII in France,concluded the Concordat of 1801.-Life:...
(1733–1810), statesman and cardinal. - Giovanni Battista Caracciolo (1578–1635), artist.
- Giovanni Battista CasanovaGiovanni Battista CasanovaGiovanni Battista Casanova was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Neoclassic period. He was a brother of Giacomo Casanova and Francesco Giuseppe Casanova and was born at Venice...
, painter, brother of Giacomo Casanova. - Giovanni Battista CastelloGiovanni Battista CastelloGiovanni Battista Castello was an Italian historical painter.Born in Gandino near Bergamo, he is ordinarily termed Il Bergamasco to distinguish him from the other painter with the identical name from school of Genoa. His best-known works are the paintings on the vault of the Basilica della...
, painter. - Giovanni Battista CastiGiovanni Battista CastiGiovanni Battista Casti was an Italian poet, satirist, and author of comic opera librettos, born in Acquapendente...
(1724–1803), poet and librettist. - Giovanni Battista CavalcaselleGiovanni Battista CavalcaselleGiovanni Battista Cavalcaselle was an Italian writer and art critic.-Biography:Cavalcaselle was born in Legnago, Veneto. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Cavalcaselle participated in the Revolution of 1848 and in the Roman Republic.After the latter's fall, he lived in England for...
(1820–1897), writer and art critic. - Giovanni Battista Cibo, birth name of Pope Innocent VIIIPope Innocent VIIIPope Innocent VIII , born Giovanni Battista Cybo , was Pope from 1484 until his death.-Early years:Giovanni Battista Cybo was born at Genoa of Greek extraction...
(1432–1492). - Giovanni Battista Cima (c.1459–c.1517), painter.
- Giovanni Battista CimaroliGiovanni Battista CimaroliGiovanni Battista Cimaroli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Brescia.Born in Salò and studied under Antonio Aureggio and Antonio Calza. He painted many commissions, often landscapes, for British patrons.-References:...
(1653–1714), painter. - Giovanni Battista Cini (1525–c.1586), playwright.
- Giovanni Battista CiprianiGiovanni Battista CiprianiGiovanni Battista Cipriani , Italian painter and engraver, Pistoiese by descent, was born in Florence.-History:His first lessons were given him by a Florentine of English descent, Ignatius Hugford, and then under Anton Domenico Gabbiani...
(1727–1785), painter and engraver. - Giovanni Battista CirriGiovanni Battista CirriGiovanni Battista Cirri was an Italian cellist and composer in the 18th century.-Biography:Cirri was born in Forlì . He had his first musical training with his brother Ignazio and was for a time organist at Forlì Cathedral...
(1724–1808), cellist and composer. - Giovanni Battista CrespiGiovanni Battista CrespiGiovanni Battista Crespi , called Il Cerano, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect,-Biography:...
(1557–1663), painter, sculptor, and architect. - Giovanni Battista DieterGiovanni Battista DieterMsgr. Giovanni Battista Dieter, S.M., D.D., Vicar Apostolic of the Navigators' Archipelago, was born in Kleinhausen on September 30, 1903. He professed the evangelical counsels on April 17, 1929 for the Society of Mary . He was subsequently ordained to the presbyterate for the Marists on June...
(1903–1955), German priest. - Giovanni Battista DonatiGiovanni Battista DonatiGiovanni Battista Donati ; 16 December 1826, Pisa, Italy – 20 September 1873, Florence, Italy) was an Italian astronomer.Donati graduated from the university of his native city, Pisa, and afterwards joined the staff of the Observatory of Florence in 1852...
(1826–1873), astronomer. - Giovanni Battista DoniGiovanni Battista DoniGiovanni Battista Doni was an Italian musicologist who made an extensive study of ancient music. Known, among other works, for having changed the name of note Ut renaming it Do after his own family name to ease solfege.- Life :...
(c.1593–1647), musicologist. - Giovanni Battista DraghiGiovanni Battista Draghi (composer)Giovanni Battista Draghi was an Italian composer and keyboard player. He may have been the brother of the composer Antonio Draghi....
(c.1640–1708), composer. - Giovanni Batista DraghiGiovanni Batista Draghi (painter)Giovanni Batista Draghi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Northern Italy.Draghi was a scholar of Domenico Piola, active in Parma and more in Piacenza, where he died. There are many pictures by him in Piacenza, and amongst them the Death of St. James in the church of...
(1657–1712), painter. - Giovanni Battista FerrandiniGiovanni Battista FerrandiniGiovanni Battista Ferrandini , an Italian composer of the Baroque and Classical eras, was born in Venice, Italy and died in Munich, at the age of 81....
(1710–1793), composer. - Giovanni Battista Ferrari, botanist.
- Giovanni Battista FogginiGiovanni Battista Fogginithumb|Tomb of [[Galileo Galilei]] in [[Santa Croce, Florence]].Giovanni Battista Foggini was an Italian sculptor active in Florence, renowned mainly for small bronze statuary.-Biography:...
(1652–1737), sculptor. - Giovanni Battista GaulliGiovanni Battista GaulliGiovanni Battista Gaulli , also known as Baciccio, Il Baciccio or Baciccia , was a painter of the Italian High Baroque verging onto that of the Rococo...
(1639–1709), painter. - Giovanni Battista GiraldiGiovanni Battista GiraldiGiovanni Battista Giraldi was an Italian novelist and poet. He appended the nickname Cinthio to his name and is commonly referred to by that name .Born at Ferrara, he was educated at the university there, and in 1525 became its professor of natural philosophy...
(1504–1573), novelist and poet. - Giovanni Battista GrassiGiovanni Battista GrassiGiovanni Battista Grassi was an Italian zoologist, known for work demonstrating that mosquitos carry the malaria parasite Plasmodium in their digestive tract, on the embryological development of honey bees, on parasites, particularly the vine parasite phylloxera, migrations and metamorphosis in...
(1854–1925), zoologist. - Giovanni Battista GuadagniniGiovanni Battista GuadagniniGiovanni Battista Guadagnini ; was an emiliano luthier, regarded as one of the finest craftsmen of string instruments in history.-Biography:...
(1711–1786), luthier. - Giovanni Battista GuariniGiovanni Battista GuariniGiovanni Battista Guarini was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat.- Life :He was born in Ferrara, and spent his early life both in Padua and Ferrara, entering the service of Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, in 1567...
(1538–1612), poet and diplomat. - Giovanni Battista HodiernaGiovanni Battista HodiernaGiovanni Battista Hodierna was an Italian astronomer at the court of the Duke of Montechiaro. He compiled a catalog of some 40 entries, including at least 19 real and verifiable nebulous objects that might be confused with comets. The work anticipated Messier's catalogue, but had little impact...
(1597–1660), astronomer. - Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, birth name of Rosso FiorentinoRosso FiorentinoGiovanni Battista di Jacopo , known as Rosso Fiorentino , or Il Rosso, was an Italian Mannerist painter, in oil and fresco, belonging to the Florentine school.-Biography:...
(1494–1540), Italian painter. - Giovanni Battista LacchiniGiovanni Battista LacchiniGiovanni Battista Lacchini was an Italian astronomer.He is primarily noted for his work in the study of variable stars...
(1884–1967), astronomer. - Giovanni Battista LandolinaGiovanni Battista LandolinaGiovanni Battista Landolina, "Marchese di S. Alfano", was a Sicilian landowner and intellectual instrumental in having the city of Noto removed from its former site on Mount Alveria to a more level location following the earthquake in 1693 centred on the Val di Noto...
landowner and intellectual. - Giovanni Battista LocatelliGiovanni Battista LocatelliGiovanni Battista Locatelli was an Italian opera director, impresario and owner of a private opera company.In 1757 he and his troupe were invited to St. Petersburg. They put on an opera every week for the court, and two to three times a week they were allowed to give open public performances. The...
(1713–c.1770), opera director. - Giovanni Battista Lulli, birth name of Jean-Baptiste LullyJean-Baptiste LullyJean-Baptiste de Lully was an Italian-born French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French Baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in...
(1632–1687), Italian-born French composer. - Giovanni Battista MaganzaGiovanni Battista MaganzaGiovanni Battista Maganza was a late Renaissance Italian painter, from Vicenza, mainly producing religious altarpieces for local churches. He was also a poet and a friend of Andrea Palladio. His son Alessandro Maganza was also a prominent local painter.- References :...
(1513–1586), painter. - Giovanni Battista MainiGiovanni Battista MainiGiovanni Battista Maini was an Italian sculptor of the Late-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.He was born in Cassano Magnago in Lombardy, and died in Rome. He may have had contacts with Foggini in Florence. By 1708, he had moved to Rome where he joined the large studio of Camillo Rusconi,...
(1690–1752), sculptor. - Giovanni Battista ManciniGiovanni Battista ManciniGiovanni Battista Mancini was an Italian soprano castrato, voice teacher, and author of books on singing....
(1714–1800), voice teacher. - Giovanni Battista MartiniGiovanni Battista MartiniGiovanni Battista Martini , also known as Padre Martini, was an Italian musician.-Biography:Martini was born at Bologna....
(1706–1784), musician. - Giovanni Battista MicheliniGiovanni Battista MicheliniGiovanni Battista Michelini was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Foligno and Rome. He was born in Foligno, but became a pupil of Guido Reni...
(1604–1655), painter. - Giovanni Battista MontiGiovanni Battista MontiGiovanni Battista Monti was an Italian painter of portraits during the Baroque period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. He emerged from a poor family, and was apprenticed with Luciano Borzone. He died from the plague in 1657.-References:...
, painter. - Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, birth name of Pope Paul VIPope Paul VIPaul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it...
(1897–1978). - Giovanni Battista MorgagniGiovanni Battista MorgagniGiovanni Battista Morgagni was an Italian anatomist, celebrated as the father of modern anatomical pathology.-Education:...
(1682–1771), anatomist. - Giovanni Battista MoroniGiovanni Battista MoroniGiovanni Battista Moroni was a North Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. He is also called Giambattista Moroni...
(1520–1578), painter. - Giovanni Battista OrsenigoGiovanni Battista OrsenigoGiovanni Battista Orsenigo- An Italian monk from a family of thirteen, although four of his siblings did not reach adulthood. He had several jobs before realizing his vocation and becoming a monk/dentist. He is most known for being in the Guinness Book of Records as the most dedicated dentist. In...
(1837–1904), monk and dentist. - Giovanni Battista OrsiniGiovanni Battista OrsiniGiovanni Battista Orsini, or Jean-Baptiste des Ursins, was 39th Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller from 1467 to 1476.-References:*Musée de Cluny** who belonged to the Grand Master Giovanni Battista degli Orsini....
Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller from 1467 to 1476 - Giovanni Battista PaggiGiovanni Battista PaggiGiovanni Battista Paggi was an Italian painter of the Late-Renaissance and early-Baroque.He was born in Genoa into the well-to-do family of his father Pellegrino...
(1554–1627), painter. - Giovanni Battista Pamphili, birth name of Pope Innocent XPope Innocent XPope Innocent X , born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj , was Pope from 1644 to 1655. Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle...
(1574–1655). - Giovanni Battista PergolesiGiovanni Battista PergolesiGiovanni Battista Pergolesi was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.-Biography:Born at Iesi, Pergolesi studied music there under a local musician, Francesco Santini, before going to Naples in 1725, where he studied under Gaetano Greco and Francesco Feo among others...
(1710–1736), composer. - Giovanni Battista PescettiGiovanni Battista PescettiGiovanni Battista Pescetti was an organist and composer. Born in Venice around 1704, he studied under Antonio Lotti for some time...
(c.1704–1766), composer and organist. - Giovanni Battista PiazzettaGiovanni Battista PiazzettaGiovanni Battista Piazzetta was an Italian rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes.-Biography:...
(c.1683–1754), painter. - Giovanni Battista PiodaGiovanni Battista PiodaGiovanni Battista Pioda was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council .He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 30 July 1857 and resigned on 26 January 1864. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland. During his time in office he held the...
(1808–1882), Swiss politician. - Giovanni Battista PiranesiGiovanni Battista PiranesiGiovanni Battista Piranesi was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" .-His Life:...
(1720–1778), artist. - Giovanni Battista di QuadroGiovanni Battista di QuadroGiovanni Battista di Quadro was a Polish-Italian renaissance architect, one of the most famous architects in Central Europe in his epoque....
Polish-Italian architect. - Giovanni Battista Re (1934–), cardinal.
- Giovanni Battista RiccioliGiovanni Battista RiccioliGiovanni Battista Riccioli was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order...
(1598–1671), astronomer. - Giovanni Battista RinucciniGiovanni Battista RinucciniGiovanni Battista Rinuccini was a Roman Catholic archbishop in the mid seventeenth century. He was a noted legal scholar who became chamberlain to Pope Gregory XV, who made him the Archbishop of Fermo in Italy...
(1592–1653), archbishop. - Giovanni Battista de RossiGiovanni Battista de RossiGiovanni Battista de Rossi was an Italian archaeologist, famous outside his field for his rediscovery of early Christian catacombs.-Life and works:He was born in Rome...
(1822–1894), archaeologist. - Giovanni Battista RubiniGiovanni Battista RubiniGiovanni Battista Rubini was an Italian tenor, as famous in his time as Enrico Caruso in a later day. His ringing and expressive coloratura dexterity in the highest register of his voice, the tenorino, inspired the writing of operatic roles which today are almost impossible to cast...
(1794–1854), singer. - Giovanni Battista SammartiniGiovanni Battista SammartiniGiovanni Battista Sammartini was an Italian composer, organist, choirmaster and teacher. He counted Gluck among his students, and was highly regarded by younger composers including Johann Christian Bach...
(c.1700–1775), composer and organist. - Giovanni Battista Salvi da SassoferratoGiovanni Battista Salvi da SassoferratoGiovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato , also known as Giovanni Battista Salvi, was an Italian Baroque painter. He is often referred to only by the town of his birthplace , as was customary in his time, and for example seen with da Vinci and Caravaggio.-Biography:The details of Giovanni Battista...
(1609–1685), painter. - Giovanni Battista Santini, architect.
- Giovanni Battista SidottiGiovanni Battista SidottiGiovanni Battista Sidotti was an Italian Jesuit priest. During the Edo period, he entered Japan illegally and was arrested, whereupon he was confined until his death....
(1668–1714), Jesuit priest and missionary. - Giovanni Battista TempestiGiovanni Battista TempestiGiovanni Battista Tempesti was an Italian painter. He was born in Volterra. He studied in Pisa and Rome. On his return from to Pisa he painted for the church of San Domenico scenes from the life of Santa Chiara Gambacorti, and for the cathedral the Celebration of Mass by Pope Eugenius III...
, painter. - Giovanni Battista TiepoloGiovanni Battista TiepoloGiovanni Battista Tiepolo , also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice...
(1696–1770), painter. - Giovanni Battista TrevanoGiovanni Battista TrevanoGiovanni Battista Trevano was an Italian architect from Lombardy who worked in Poland as royal architect for King Sigismund III Vasa, of the Swedish dynasty of Vasa, who was ruling Poland at the time....
, architect. - Giovanni Battista VaccariniGiovanni Battista VaccariniGiovanni Battista Vaccarini was an Italian architect, notable for his work in the Sicilian Baroque style in his homeland during the period of massive rebuilding following the earthquake of 1693. Many of his principal works can be found in the area in and around Catania.- Biography :Vaccarini was...
(1702–1768), architect. - Giovanni Battista VenturiGiovanni Battista VenturiGiovanni Battista Venturi was an Italian physicist. He was the discoverer and eponym of Venturi effect. He was also the eponym of the Venturi pump and Venturi tube....
(1746–1822), physicist. - Giovanni Battista ViottiGiovanni Battista ViottiGiovanni Battista Viotti was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness...
(1755–1824), violinist and composer. - Giovanni Battista VitaliGiovanni Battista VitaliGiovanni Battista Vitali was an Italian composer and violone player.Vitali was born in Bologna and spent all of his life in the Emilian region, moving to Modena in 1674...
, composer. - Giovanni Battista VolpatiGiovanni Battista VolpatiGiovanni Battista Volpati was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Bassano. He was the author of some treatises on the fine arts. The most important of these is La Verità Pittoresca.-References:...
, (1633–1706), painter. - Giovanni Battista ZupiGiovanni Battista ZupiGiovanni Battista Zupi or Zupus was an Italian astronomer, mathematician, and Jesuit priest.He was born in Catanzaro. In 1639, Giovanni was the first person to discover that the planet Mercury had orbital phases, just like the Moon and Venus. His observations demonstrated that the planet orbited...
(c.1590–1650), astronomer, mathematician, and Jesuit priest.
Giambattista
- Giambattista AndreiniGiambattista AndreiniGiambattista Andreini was an Italian actor and playwright.-Life:Born in Florence to stage stars Isabella Andreini and Francesco Andreini, he had a great success as a comedian in Paris under the name of Leylio...
(1578–1650), actor and playwright. - Giambattista BasileGiambattista BasileGiambattista Basile was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector.- Biography :Born to a Neapolitan middle-class family, Basile was, during his career, a courtier and soldier to various Italian princes, including the doge of Venice. According to Benedetto Croce he was born in 1575, while...
(1575–1632), poet, courtier, and fairytale collector. - Giambattista BenedettiGiambattista BenedettiGiambattista Benedetti was an Italian mathematician from Venice who was also interested in physics, mechanics, the construction of sundials, and the science of music.-Science of motion:...
(1530–1590), mathematician. - Giambattista BodoniGiambattista BodoniGiambattista Bodoni was an Italian engraver, publisher, printer and typographer of high repute remembered for designing a family of different typefaces called Bodoni....
(1740–1813), engraver and printer. - Giambattista De CurtisGiambattista De CurtisGiambattista de Curtis was an Italian painter and poet remembered today for his song lyrics.-Biography:Born into a noble family in Naples, de Curtis was the firstborn of the fresco painter Giuseppe de Curtis and his wife, Elisabetta Minnon, and was a great-grandson of composer Saverio Mercadante...
(1860–1926), painter and poet. - Giambattista GelliGiambattista GelliGiambattista Gelli was a Florentine humanist man of letters, from an artisan background. He is known for his works of the 1540s, Capricci del bottaio and La Circe, which are ethical and philosophical dialogues...
(1498–1563), humanist. - Giambattista Marini (1569–1625), poet.
- Giambattista PittoniGiambattista PittoniGiambattista Pittoni was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, active mainly in his native Venice....
(1687–1767), painter. - Giambattista della PortaGiambattista della PortaGiambattista della Porta , also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta and John Baptist Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Scientific Revolution and Reformation....
(1538–1615), scholar, polymath, and child prodigy. - Giambattista ValliGiambattista Valli-Early life:Valli obtained his education from one of Rome's Vatican schools, during a conservative childhood. On his office mantelpiece are photographs of Penelope Cruz, Queen Rania, Astrid Munoz and one of him as a youth taken with Pope John Paul I. In the picture Valli is wearing turquoise shorts...
, fashion designer. - Giambattista VicoGiambattista VicoGiovanni Battista ' Vico or Vigo was an Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist....
(1668–1744), philosopher, historian, jurist.
Giovan Battista
- Giovan Battista CarpiGiovan Battista CarpiGiovan Battista Carpi was an Italian comics artist. He worked mainly for Disney comics, mostly on books featuring Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck, although he occasionally drew Mickey Mouse as well...
(1927–1999), Italian cartoonistCartoonistA cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
. - Giovan Battista CiniGiovan Battista CiniGiovan Battista Cini was an Italian renaissance playwright at the court of the Medici in Florence.Cini was a member of The Florentine Academy of Art which was founded by Grand Duke Cosimo I at the height of the Medici power during the 16th century...
, Italian playwright - Giovan Battista Perasso aka BalillaBalillaBalilla was the nickname of Giovan Battista Perasso, a Genoese boy who started the revolt of 1746 against the Habsburg forces that occupied the city in the War of the Austrian Succession by throwing a stone on an Austrian official....
, legendary revolutionary