Giovanni Battista was a common Italian given name (see

Battista Battista is a given name and surname which means Baptist in Italian. Given named * Battista Agnese (died 1564), cartographer from the Republic of Genoa, who worked in the Venetian Republic * Battista Dossi, also known as Battista de Luteri, Ital ...

for those with the surname) in the 16th-18th centuries. It refers to " John the Baptist" in English, the French equivalent is " Jean-Baptiste". Common nicknames include Giambattista, Gianbattista, Giovambattista, or Giambo. In Genoese the 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 Adriani Giovanni Battista Adriani (1511 or 15131579) was an Italian historian. Life He was born into a patrician family of Florence. His father, Marcello Virgilio Adriani (died 27 November 1521), was a professor of literature, and served as chancellor of ...

(c.1511–1579), historian. *

Giovanni Battista Agnello Giovanni Battista Agnello ( fl. 1560–1577) was a Venetian alchemist working in London in the 1560s and 1570s. He was the author of the second book in Italian printed in England, ''Espositione sopra vn libro intitolato Apocalypsis spiritus secre ...

(fl. 1560–1577), author and alchemist. *

Giovanni Battista Aleotti Giovan Battista Aleotti (1546 – 12 December 1636) was an Italian architect. Biography Aleotti was born in Argenta, Italy, Argenta. For some years, Aleotti went to Ferrara, to work under Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso II d'Este where with ...

(1546–1636), architect. *

Giovanni Battista Amendola Giovanni Battista Amendola (1848–1887) was an Italian sculptor from Sarno. 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 Pala ...

(1848–1887), sculptor. * Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863), astronomer and microscopist. * Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1896-1961), writer and journalist. *

Giovanni Battista Ballanti Giovanni Battista Ballanti (1762–1835), also known as Giovan Battista Ballanti Graziani, was an Italian sculptor working in the Neo-classical style. He was born in Faenza and his father, wishing him to become an engraver, placed him with a pa ...

(1762–1835), sculptor. *

Giovanni Battista Barbiani Giovanni Battista Barbiani (1593–1650) 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 de ...

(1593–1650), painter. *

Giovanni Battista Beccaria Giovanni Battista Beccaria (; 3 October 1716 – 27 May 1781), Italian physicist, was born at Mondovì, and entered the religious Order of the Pious Schools or Piarists, in 1732, where he studied, and afterward taught, grammar and rhetoric. At t ...

(1716–1781), physicist. *

Giovanni Battista Bellandi Giovanni Battista Bellandi (early 16th century) was an Italian sculptor, active in Milan for its elaborately decorated Cathedral of Milan, Cathedral. References * Renaissance sculptors 16th-century I ...

, sculptor. * Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823), explorer. *

Giovanni Battista Bernero Giovanni Battista Bernero (1736–1796) 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. A royal subsi ...

(1736–1796), sculptor. *

Giovanni Battista Brocchi Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Brocchi (18 February 177225 September 1826) was an Italian naturalist, mineralogist and geologist. Biography Giovanni Battista Brocchi was born in Bassano del Grappa and studied jurisprudence at the Univers ...

(1772–1826), mineralogist and geologist. * Giovanni Battista Bugatti (1780–1869), executioner. *

Giovanni Battista Buonamente Giovanni Battista Buonamente (ca. 1595 – 1642) was an Italian composer and violinist in the early Baroque era. He served the Gonzagas in Mantua until about 1622, and from about 1626 to 1630 served the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman ...

(c.1595–1642), composer and violinist. * Giovanni Battista Caccini, sculptor. *

Giovanni Battista Caporali Giovanni Battista Caporali (c. 1476–1560) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was also called Bitte, a diminutive of his Christian name and by Vasari, ''Benedetto'', was the son of Bartolommeo Caporali, and was born at Perugia. He wa ...

(1476–1560), painter. *

Giovanni Battista Caprara Giovanni Battista Caprara Montecuccoli (1733 – 1810) was an Italian statesman and Cardinal and archbishop of Milan from 1802 to 1810. As a papal diplomat he served in the embassies in Cologne, Lausanne, and Vienna. As Legate of Pius VII in Fra ...

(1733–1810), statesman and cardinal. *

Giovanni Battista Caracciolo Giovanni Battista Caracciolo (also called Battistello) (1578–1635) was an Italian artist and important Neapolitan follower of Caravaggio. He was a member of the murderous Cabal of Naples, with Belisario Corenzio and Giambattista Caracciolo, wh ...

(1578–1635), artist. * Giovanni Battista Casanova, painter, brother of Giacomo Casanova. *

Giovanni Battista Castello Giovanni Battista Castello (1500 or 1509–1569 or 1579) was an Italian historical Painting, painter. Born in Gandino near Bergamo, he is ordinarily termed Il Bergamasco to distinguish him from the other painter (of miniatures) with the identi ...

, painter. *

Giovanni Battista Casti Giovanni Battista Casti (29 August 1724 – 5 February 1803) was an Italian poet, satirist, and author of comic opera librettos. Life He was born in Acquapendente. He entered the priesthood after studying at the seminary of Montefiascone and becam ...

(1724–1803), poet and librettist. * Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1820–1897), writer and art critic. * Giovanni Battista Cibo, birth name of

Pope Innocent VIII Pope Innocent VIII ( la, Innocentius VIII; it, Innocenzo VIII; 1432 – 25 July 1492), born Giovanni Battista Cybo (or Cibo), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 August 1484 to his death in July 1492. Son of th ...

(1432–1492). *

Giovanni Battista Cima Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459 – c. 1517), was an Italian Renaissance painter, who mostly worked in Venice. He can be considered part of the Venetian school, though he was also influenced by Antonello da ...

(c.1459–c.1517), painter. *

Giovanni Battista Cimaroli Giovanni Battista Cimaroli (1687–1771) was an Italian painter of rustic landscapes with farms, villas and graceful figures and capricci of ruins and views of towns in the Veneto. Biography He was born in Salò on Lake Garda, not far from ...

(1653–1714), painter. *

Giovanni Battista Cini Giovan Battista Cini (1525 – c. 1586) was an Italian Renaissance playwright at the court of the Medici in Florence. History Cini was a member of The Florentine Academy of Art which was founded by Grand Duke Cosimo I at the height of the Medic ...

(1525–c.1586), playwright. *

Giovanni Battista Cipriani Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 – 14 December 1785) was an Italian painter and engraver, who lived in England from 1755. He is also called Giuseppe Cipriani by some authors. Much of his work consisted of designs for prints, many of whic ...

(1727–1785), painter and engraver. * Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724–1808), cellist and composer. *

Giovanni Battista Crespi Giovanni Battista Crespi (23 December 1573 – 23 October 1632), called Il Cerano, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect. Biography He was born in Romagnano Sesia, the son of a painter, Raffaele Crespi, and moved to Cerano with his fa ...

(1557–1663), painter, sculptor, and architect. *

Giovanni Battista de Campania Giovanni may refer to: * Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname * Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data * ''Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of ...

(1633-1639), 64th Minister General of the OFM *

Giovanni Battista Dieter Msgr. Giovanni Battista Dieter, S.M., D.D., Vicar Apostolic of the Navigators' Archipelago, was born in Kleinhausen (Germany) on 30 September 1903. He professed the evangelical counsels on 17 April 1929 for the Society of Mary (Marists). He was ...

(1903–1955), German priest. *

Giovanni Battista Donati Giovanni Battista Donati (; 16 December 182620 September 1873) 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. He was appointed d ...

(1826–1873), astronomer. * Giovanni Battista Doni (c.1593–1647), musicologist. * Giovanni Battista Draghi (c.1640–1708), composer. * Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1710–1793), composer. *

Giovanni Battista Ferrari Giovanni Baptista (also Battista) Ferrari (1584 in Siena – 1 February 1655 in Siena), was an Italian Jesuit and professor in Rome, a botanist, and an author of illustrated botanical books and a Syriac-Latin dictionary. Linguistically highly ...

, botanist. *

Giovanni Battista Foggini Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Foggini (25 April 1652 – 12 April 1725) was an Italian sculptor active in Florence, renowned mainly for small bronze statuary. Biography Born in Florence, the young Foggini was sent to Rome by the Medici Gran ...

(1652–1737), sculptor. * Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1639–1709), painter. * Giovanni Battista Giraldi (1504–1573), novelist and poet. *

Giovanni Battista Grassi Giovanni Battista Grassi (27 March 1854 – 4 May 1925) was an Italian physician and zoologist, best known for his pioneering works on parasitology, especially on malariology. He was Professor of Comparative Zoology at the University of Catania ...

(1854–1925), zoologist. *

Giovanni Battista Guadagnini Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (often shortened to G. B. Guadagnini; 23 June 1711 – 18 September 1786) was an Italian luthier, regarded as one of the finest craftsmen of string instruments in history. Reprint with new introduction by Stewart Pol ...

(1711–1786), luthier. * Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538–1612), poet and diplomat. * Giovanni Battista Guelphi, 18th century sculptor *

Giovanni Battista Hodierna Giovanni Battista Hodierna, also spelled as Odierna (April 13, 1597 – April 6, 1660) was an Italian astronomer at the court of Giulio Tomasi, Duke of Palma (Palma di Montechiaro). He compiled a catalogue of comets and other celestial object ...

(1597–1660), astronomer. * Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, birth name of Rosso Fiorentino (1494–1540), Italian painter. *

Giovanni Battista Lacchini Giovanni Battista Lacchini (20 May 1884 – 6 January 1967) was an Italian astronomer. He is primarily noted for his work in the study of variable star A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth (its apparent magnitude) ...

(1884–1967), astronomer. *

Giovanni Battista Landolina {{Unreferenced, date=December 2009 Giovanni Battista Landolina, "Marchese di S. Alfano", was a Sicily, Sicilian landowner and intellectual instrumental in having the city of Noto removed from its former site on Mount Alveria to a more level locatio ...

, landowner and intellectual. *

Giovanni Battista Lenzi Giovanni Batista Lenzi (13 April 1951 - 1 June 2009) was an Italian politician who was a member of the Regional Council of Trentino-Alto Adige from 2003 until his death aboard Air France Flight 447 in 2009. He was a member of the thirteenth and ...

(1951–2009), Italian politician. * Giovanni Battista Locatelli (disambiguation), several people * Giovanni Battista Lulli, birth name of

Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he ...

(1632–1687), Italian-born French composer. * Giovanni Battista Lusieri (1755–1821), Italian painter who was involved in the removal of the Elgin Marbles. *

Giovanni Battista Maganza Giovanni Battista Maganza (c. 1513–August 25, 1586) was a late Renaissance Italian painter and poet, from Vicenza in the area of Calaone, mainly producing religious altarpieces for local churches. Biography Maganza was also a poet and a frie ...

(1513–1586), painter. * Giovanni Battista Maini (1690–1752), sculptor. *

Giovanni Battista Mancini Giovanni Battista Mancini (1 January 1714 – 4 January 1800) was an Italian soprano castrato, voice teacher, and author of books on singing. Mancini was born at Ascoli Piceno, Italy. He studied singing in Naples with Leonardo Leo and in Bolo ...

(1714–1800), voice teacher. * Giovanni Battista Martini (1706–1784), musician. *

Giovanni Battista Michelini Giovanni Battista Michelini (also called ''il Folignate'') (1604–1655) 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. He painted mainly religious and m ...

(1604–1655), painter. * Giovanni Battista Monte (1498-1551), humanist physician and professor at Padua. * Giovanni Battista Monti, painter. * Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, birth name of Pope Paul VI (1897–1978). * Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), anatomist. * Giovanni Battista Moroni (1520–1578), painter. * Giovanni Battista Orsenigo (1837–1904), monk and dentist. * Giovanni Battista Orsini, Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller from 1467 to 1476 *

Giovanni Battista Paggi Giovanni Battista Paggi (27 February 1554 – 12 March 1627) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and writer. His style spans the Late-Renaissance and early-Baroque. Life He was born in Genoa into the well-to-do family of his father Pellegrino. I ...

(1554–1627), painter. * Giovanni Battista Pamphili, birth name of Pope Innocent X (1574–1655). *

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Giovanni Battista Draghi (; 4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), often referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (), was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist. His best-known works include his Stabat Mater and the opera ''L ...

(1710–1736), composer. *

Giovanni Battista Pescetti Giovanni Battista Pescetti (c. 170420 March 1766) was an organist, harpsichordist, and composer known primarily for his operas and keyboard sonatas. Musicologist and University of California, Santa Barbara professor John E. Gillespie wrote that Pes ...

(c.1704–1766), composer and organist. * Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (c.1683–1754), painter. *

Giovanni Battista Pioda Giovanni Battista Pioda (4 October 1808, in Locarno – 3 November 1882) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1857–1864). He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland The Federal Council (german: Bundesr ...

(1808–1882), Swiss politician. * Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), artist. *

Giovanni Battista di Quadro Giovanni Battista di Quadro (Polish ''Jan Baptysta Quadro'', Latin ''Joannes Baptista Quadro'') (died between 10 April 1590 and 16 January 1591) was an Italian renaissance architect, one of the most famous architects in Central Europe in his era. ...

, Polish-Italian architect. * Giovanni Battista Re (1934–), cardinal. * Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598–1671), astronomer. * Giovanni Battista Rinuccini (1592–1653), archbishop. * Giovanni Battista de Rossi (1822–1894), archaeologist. * Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794–1854), singer. *

Giovanni Battista Sammartini Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1700 – 15 January 1775) was an Italian composer, violinist, organist, choirmaster and teacher. He counted Gluck among his students, and was highly regarded by younger composers including Johann Christian ...

(c.1700–1775), composer and organist. * Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (1609–1685), painter. *

Giovanni Battista Santini Jan Blažej Santini Aichel (3 February 1677 – 7 December 1723) was a Czech architect of Italian descent, whose major works represent the unique Baroque Gothic style - the special combination of the Baroque and Gothic styles. Biogra ...

, architect. *

Giovanni Battista Sidotti Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668 – 27 November 1714) was an Italian secular priest and Apostolic Missionary of the Pontifical Congregation of Propaganda Fide. During the Edo period, he entered Japan illegally and was arrested, whereupon he was c ...

(1668–1714), Jesuit priest and missionary. *

Giovanni Battista Tempesti Giovanni Battista Tempesti (1729–1804) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Pisa. Biography Tempesta was born in Volterra. He studied in Pisa and Rome. On his return from to Pisa, for the church of San Domenico, he painted scenes from the ...

, painter. *

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( , ; March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an impo ...

(1696–1770), painter. *

Giovanni Battista Trevano Giovanni Battista Trevano (born in Lugano, Switzerland, died 1644 in Krakow, Poland) was an Italian-speaking architect who worked in Poland as royal architect for King Sigismund III Vasa, of the Vasa dynasty, which ruled Poland at the time. ...

, architect. * Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (1702–1768), architect. *

Giovanni Battista Venturi Giovanni Battista Venturi (11 September 1746 – 10 September 1822) was an Italian physicist, savant, man of letters, diplomat and historian of science. He was the discoverer of the Venturi effect, which was described in 1797 in his ''Recherches E ...

(1746–1822), physicist. *

Giovanni Battista Viotti Giovanni Battista Viotti (12 May 1755 – 3 March 1824) was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness. He was also a director of French and Italia ...

(1755–1824), violinist and composer. *

Giovanni Battista Vitali Giovanni Battista Vitali (18 February 1632 – 12 October 1692) was an Italian composer and violone player. Life and career Vitali was born in Bologna and spent all of his life in the Emilian region, moving to Modena in 1674. His teacher in his ...

, composer. *

Giovanni Battista Volpati Giovanni Battista Volpati or Volpato (March 7, 1633 – 1706) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from ...

, (1633–1706), painter. * Giovanni Battista Zupi (c.1590–1650), astronomer, mathematician, and Jesuit priest.

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Giambattista Andreini Giambattista Andreini (9 February 1576 – 7 June 1654) was an Italian actor and the most important Italian playwright of the 17th century. Life Born in Florence to stage stars Isabella Andreini and Francesco Andreini, he had a great success ...

(1578–1650), actor and playwright. * Giambattista Basile (1575–1632), poet, courtier, and fairytale collector. *

Giambattista Benedetti Giambattista (Gianbattista) Benedetti (August 14, 1530 – January 20, 1590 in) was an Italian mathematician from Venice who was also interested in physics, mechanics, the construction of sundials, and the science of music. Science of motio ...

(1530–1590), mathematician. * Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813), engraver and printer. *

Giambattista De Curtis Giambattista de Curtis (20 July 1860 – 15 January 1926) 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 ...

(1860–1926), painter and poet. *

Giambattista Gelli Giambattista Gelli (1498–1563) was a Florentine man of letters, from an artisan background. Gelli was a shoemaker, and he used to publish dialogues. He is known for his works of the 1540s, ''Capricci del bottaio'' and ''La Circe'', which are ...

(1498–1563), humanist. * Giambattista Marini (1569–1625), poet. *

Giambattista Pittoni Giambattista Pittoni or Giovanni Battista Pittoni (6 June 1687 – 6 November 1767) was a Venetian painter of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He was among the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, of which in 1758 he became the s ...

(1687–1767), painter. * Giambattista della Porta (1538–1615), scholar, polymath, and child prodigy. * Giambattista Valli, fashion designer. * Giambattista Vico (1668–1744), philosopher, historian, jurist.

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* Giovan Battista Carpi (1927–1999), Italian

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Giovan Battista Cini Giovan Battista Cini (1525 – c. 1586) was an Italian Renaissance playwright at the court of the Medici in Florence. History Cini was a member of The Florentine Academy of Art which was founded by Grand Duke Cosimo I at the height of the Medic ...

, Italian playwright * Giovan Battista Perasso aka

Balilla ''Balilla'' was the nickname of Giovanni Battista Perasso (1735–1781), 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 at an Austrian ...

, legendary revolutionary *

Giovan Battista Pirovano Giovan Battista Pirovano (; 5 May 1937 – 8 November 2014) was an Italian footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a midfielder. Career Born in Vercelli, Pirovano played for Pro Vercelli, Verona, Fiorentina and Legn ...

(1937–2014), Italian footballer {{given name Italian masculine given names