Giovanni Battista was a common Italian given name (see
Battista 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.
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Agnello (fl. 1560–1577), author and alchemist.
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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.
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863), astronomer and microscopist.
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Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1896-1961), writer and journalist.
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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.
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716–1781), physicist.
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Giovanni Battista Bellandi
Giovanni Battista Bellandi (early 16th century) was an Italian sculptor, active in Milan for its elaborately decorated Cathedral of Milan, Cathedral.
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, sculptor.
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Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823), explorer.
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Giovanni Battista Bernero (1736–1796), sculptor.
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Bugatti (1780–1869), executioner.
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Giovanni Battista Buonamente (c.1595–1642), composer and violinist.
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Giovanni Battista Caccini, sculptor.
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Caprara (1733–1810), statesman and cardinal.
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Giovanni Battista Caracciolo (1578–1635), artist.
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Giovanni Battista Casanova, painter, brother of Giacomo Casanova.
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Giovanni Battista Castello, painter.
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Giovanni Battista Casti (1724–1803), poet and librettist.
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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).
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Giovanni Battista Cima (c.1459–c.1517), painter.
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Giovanni Battista Cimaroli (1653–1714), painter.
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Giovanni Battista Cini (1525–c.1586), playwright.
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724–1808), cellist and composer.
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Giovanni Battista Crespi (1557–1663), painter, sculptor, and architect.
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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
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Donati (1826–1873), astronomer.
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Giovanni Battista Doni (c.1593–1647), musicologist.
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Giovanni Battista Draghi (c.1640–1708), composer.
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Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1710–1793), composer.
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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.
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1639–1709), painter.
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Giovanni Battista Giraldi (1504–1573), novelist and poet.
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Giovanni Battista Grassi (1854–1925), zoologist.
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Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1711–1786), luthier.
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Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538–1612), poet and diplomat.
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Giovanni Battista Guelphi, 18th century sculptor
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Locatelli (disambiguation) Giovanni Battista Locatelli may refer to:
* Giovanni Battista Locatelli (opera director)
* Giovanni Battista Locatelli (sculptor)
{{human name disambiguation, Locatelli, Giovanni Battista ...
, 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.
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Giovanni Battista Lusieri (1755–1821), Italian painter who was involved in the removal of the
Elgin Marbles.
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Giovanni Battista Maganza (1513–1586), painter.
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Giovanni Battista Maini (1690–1752), sculptor.
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Martini (1706–1784), musician.
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Monte (1498-1551), humanist physician and professor at
Padua.
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Giovanni Battista Monti, painter.
* Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, birth name of
Pope Paul VI (1897–1978).
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Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), anatomist.
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Giovanni Battista Moroni (1520–1578), painter.
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Giovanni Battista Orsenigo
Giovanni Battista Orsenigo (1837–1904) was an Italian language, 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 among the ...
(1837–1904), monk and dentist.
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Giovanni Battista Orsini, Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller from 1467 to 1476
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Giovanni Battista Paggi (1554–1627), painter.
* Giovanni Battista Pamphili, birth name of
Pope Innocent X (1574–1655).
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Pescetti (c.1704–1766), composer and organist.
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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (c.1683–1754), painter.
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Giovanni Battista Pioda (1808–1882), Swiss politician.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), artist.
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Re (1934–), cardinal.
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Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598–1671), astronomer.
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Giovanni Battista Rinuccini (1592–1653), archbishop.
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Giovanni Battista de Rossi (1822–1894), archaeologist.
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Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794–1854), singer.
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c.1700–1775), composer and organist.
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Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (1609–1685), painter.
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668–1714), Jesuit priest and missionary.
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Giovanni Battista Tempesti, painter.
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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.
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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.
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, architect.
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Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (1702–1768), architect.
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Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746–1822), physicist.
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Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755–1824), violinist and composer.
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Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer.
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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.
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Giovanni Battista Zupi (c.1590–1650), astronomer, mathematician, and Jesuit priest.
Giambattista
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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.
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Giambattista Basile (1575–1632), poet, courtier, and fairytale collector.
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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.
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Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813), engraver and printer.
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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.
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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.
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Giambattista Marini (1569–1625), poet.
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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.
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Giambattista della Porta (1538–1615), scholar, polymath, and child prodigy.
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Giambattista Valli, fashion designer.
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Giambattista Vico (1668–1744), philosopher, historian, jurist.
Giovan Battista
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Giovan Battista Carpi (1927–1999), Italian
cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
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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, legendary revolutionary
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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
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