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for those with the surname) in the 16th-18th centuries. It refers to "

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Jean-Baptiste Jean-Baptiste is a male French name, originating with Saint John the Baptist, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following: Persons * Charles XIV John of Sweden, born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, was King ...

". 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 secr ...

(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 Giovanni Battista Amici (; 25 March 1786 – 10 April 1863) was an Italian astronomer, microscopist, and botanist. Amici was born in Modena, in present-day Italy. After studying at Bologna, he became professor of mathematics at Modena, and in 183 ...

(1786–1863), astronomer and microscopist. *

Giovanni Battista Angioletti Giovanni Battista Angioletti (27 November 1896 – 3 August 1961) was an Italian writer and journalist. Life Angioletti was born in Milan in 1896 and was gifted with a lively and reflective intelligence. His plans to qualify as an engineer wer ...

(1896-1961), writer and journalist. * Giovanni Battista Ballanti (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 Giovanni Battista Belzoni (; 5 November 1778 – 3 December 1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his removal to England of the seven-tonn ...

(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 sub ...

(1736–1796), sculptor. * Giovanni Battista Brocchi (1772–1826), mineralogist and geologist. *

Giovanni Battista Bugatti Giovanni Battista Bugatti (1779–1869) was the official executioner for the Papal States from 1796 to 1864. He was the longest-serving executioner in the States and was nicknamed Mastro Titta, a Roman corruption of ''maestro di giustizia'', or ' ...

(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 Giovanni Battista Caccini or Giovan Battista Caccini (24 October 1556 – 13 March 1613) was an Italian sculptor from Florence, who worked in a classicising style in the later phase of Mannerism. Life Giovanni Battista Caccini was born at Mon ...

, sculptor. * Giovanni Battista Caporali (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 ...

(1578–1635), artist. *

Giovanni Battista Casanova Giovanni Battista Casanova (; 2 November 1730 – 8 December 1795) 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. He studied painti ...

, 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 Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (22 January 1819 – 31 October 1897) was an Italian writer and art critic, best known as part of "Crowe and Cavalcaselle", for the many works in English on art history he co-authored with Joseph Archer Crowe. T ...

(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 Giovanni Battista Cirri (1 October 1724 – 11 June 1808) was an Italian cellist and composer in the 18th century. Biography Cirri was born in Forlì in the Emilia-Romagna Region of Italy. He had his first musical training with his brother Ig ...

(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 ...

(1557–1663), painter, sculptor, and architect. * Giovanni Battista de Campania (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 Giovanni Battista Doni (bap. 13 March 1595 – 1647) was an Italian musicologist and humanist who made an extensive study of ancient music. He is known, among other works, for having renamed the note "Ut" to "Do" in solfège. In his day, he was ...

(c.1593–1647), musicologist. * Giovanni Battista Draghi (c.1640–1708), composer. *

Giovanni Battista Ferrandini Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (c. 1710 – 25 October 1791), an Italian composer of the Baroque and Classical eras, was born in Venice, Italy and died in Munich, at the age of about 81. He was a child prodigy and entered the service of Duke ...

(1710–1793), composer. * Giovanni Battista Ferrari, 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 Giovanni Battista Gaulli (8 May 1639 – 2 April 1709), also known as Baciccio or Baciccia (Genoese nicknames for ''Giovanni Battista''), was an Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods. He is best known for his grand ...

(1639–1709), painter. *

Giovanni Battista Giraldi Giovanni Battista Giraldi (12 November 1504 – 30 December 1573) was an Italian novelist and poet. He appended the nickname Cinthio to his name and is commonly referred to by that name (which is also rendered as Cynthius, Cintio or, in Italian, ...

(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 Catani ...

(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 Giovanni Battista Guarini (10 December 1538 – 7 October 1612) was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat. Life Guarini was born in Ferrara. On the termination of his studies at the universities of Pisa, Padua and Ferrara, he was appointed pr ...

(1538–1612), poet and diplomat. *

Giovanni Battista Guelphi Giovanni Battista Guelphi or Guelfi (1690–1736) was an Italian sculptor who worked in England in the early 18th century. Life He was born in Italy in the late 17th century. He trained under sculptor Camillo Rusconi in Rome and in 1714 was ...

, 18th century sculptor * Giovanni Battista Hodierna (1597–1660), astronomer. * Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, birth name of

Rosso Fiorentino Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (8 March 1495 in Gregorian style, or 1494 according to the calculation of times in Florence where the year began on 25 March – 14 November 1540), known as Rosso Fiorentino (meaning "Red Florentine" in Italian) ...

(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 stars. He published over 100 works, including papers in "Astronomische Nachrichten" and "Memorie d ...

(1884–1967), astronomer. * Giovanni Battista Landolina, landowner and intellectual. * Giovanni Battista Lenzi (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 Giovanni Battista Lusieri (1755–1821) was an Italian landscape painter from Naples. He was court painter to Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies before working for Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and becoming involved in the removal and shipping of ...

(1755–1821), Italian painter who was involved in the removal of the

Elgin Marbles The Elgin Marbles (), also known as the Parthenon Marbles ( el, Γλυπτά του Παρθενώνα, lit. "sculptures of the Parthenon"), are a collection of Classical Greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and s ...

. *

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 Giovanni Battista Maini (6 February 1690 – 29 July 1752) 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 ...

(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 Giovanni Battista or Giambattista Martini, O.F.M. Conv. (24 April 1706 – 3 August 1784), also known as Padre Martini, was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar, who was a leading musician, composer, and music historian of the period ...

(1706–1784), musician. * Giovanni Battista Michelini (1604–1655), painter. * Giovanni Battista Monte (1498-1551), humanist physician and professor at

Padua Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...

. *

Giovanni Battista Monti Giovanni Battista Monti (died 1657) 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 Plague o ...

, painter. * Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, birth name of

Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI ( la, Paulus VI; it, Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his ...

(1897–1978). *

Giovanni Battista Morgagni Giovanni Battista Morgagni (25 February 1682 – 6 December 1771) was an Italian anatomist, generally regarded as the father of modern anatomical pathology, who taught thousands of medical students from many countries during his 56 years as Prof ...

(1682–1771), anatomist. *

Giovanni Battista Moroni Giovanni Battista Moroni ( – 5 February 1579) was an Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. He also is called Giambattista Moroni. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is conside ...

(1520–1578), painter. * Giovanni Battista Orsenigo (1837–1904), monk and dentist. *

Giovanni Battista Orsini Giovanni Battista Orsini, or Jean-Baptiste des Ursins, was the 39th Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller from 1467 to 1476. References *Musée de Cluny

, 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. ...

(1554–1627), painter. * Giovanni Battista Pamphili, birth name of

Pope Innocent X Pope Innocent X ( la, Innocentius X; it, Innocenzo X; 6 May 1574 – 7 January 1655), born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (or Pamphili), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death in January ...

(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 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes. Biography Piazzetta was ...

(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 Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi (; also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian Classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric " ...

(1720–1778), artist. * Giovanni Battista di Quadro, Polish-Italian architect. *

Giovanni Battista Re Giovanni Battista Re (born 30 January 1934) is an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church whose service has been primarily in the Roman Curia. He was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2001. He was prefect of the Congregation for Bisho ...

(1934–), cardinal. *

Giovanni Battista Riccioli Giovanni Battista Riccioli, SJ (17 April 1598 – 25 June 1671) was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling bodies, for his discussion ...

(1598–1671), astronomer. *

Giovanni Battista Rinuccini Giovanni Battista Rinuccini (1592–1653) was an Italian Roman Catholic archbishop in the mid-seventeenth century. He was a noted legal scholar and became chamberlain to Pope Gregory XV. In 1625 Pope Urban VIII made him the Archbishop of Fermo ...

(1592–1653), archbishop. *

Giovanni Battista de Rossi Giovanni Battista (Carlo) de Rossi (23 February 1822 – 20 September 1894) was an Italian archaeologist, famous even outside his field for rediscovering early Christian catacombs. Life and works Born in Rome, he was the son of Commendatore Cam ...

(1822–1894), archaeologist. *

Giovanni Battista Rubini Giovanni Battista Rubini (7 April 1794 – 3 March 1854) 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'', insp ...

(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 Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (August 25, 1609 – August 8, 1685), also known as Giovanni Battista Salvi, was an Italian Baroque painter, known for his archaizing commitment to Raphael's style. He is often referred to only by the town ...

(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. Biograp ...

, 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, architect. *

Giovanni Battista Vaccarini Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (3 February 1702 – 11 March 1768) was a Sicilians, Sicilian architect, notable for his work in the Sicilian Baroque style in his homeland during the period of massive rebuilding following the 1693 Sicily earthquake, ea ...

(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, (1633–1706), painter. *

Giovanni Battista Zupi Giovanni Battista Zupi or ''Zupus'' (2 November 1589 – 26 August 1667) 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 or ...

(c.1590–1650), astronomer, mathematician, and Jesuit priest.

Giambattista

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 Giambattista Basile (February 1566 – February 1632) was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. His collections include the oldest recorded forms of many well-known (and more obscure) European fairy tales. He is chiefly remembere ...

(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 Giambattista Bodoni (, ; 16 February 1740 – 30 November 1813) was an Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer, and publisher in Parma. He first took the type-designs of Pierre Simon Fournier as his exemplars, but afterwards bec ...

(1740–1813), engraver and printer. * Giambattista De Curtis (1860–1926), painter and poet. * Giambattista Gelli (1498–1563), humanist. *

Giambattista Marini 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, Gia ...

(1569–1625), poet. * Giambattista Pittoni (1687–1767), painter. *

Giambattista della Porta Giambattista della Porta (; 1535 – 4 February 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and Reformation. Giamba ...

(1538–1615), scholar, polymath, and child prodigy. *

Giambattista Valli Giambattista Valli is an Italian fashion designer. He is from Rome, Italy. His collections, both ready to wear and Haute couture are presented semi-annually during Paris Fashion Week. Early life Born and raised in Rome, Giambattista Valli comple ...

, fashion designer. *

Giambattista Vico Giambattista Vico (born Giovan Battista Vico ; ; 23 June 1668 – 23 January 1744) was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist during the Italian Enlightenment. He criticized the expansion and development of modern rationali ...

(1668–1744), philosopher, historian, jurist.

Giovan Battista

Giovan Battista Carpi Giovan Battista Carpi (; November 16, 1927 – March 8, 1999) was a prolific Italian comics artist, illustrator, and teacher from Genoa. Carpi worked mainly for Disney comics, mostly on books featuring Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck, although he ...

(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 ...

. * Giovan Battista Cini, 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 (1937–2014), Italian footballer {{given name Italian masculine given names