Giovanni Battista was a common Italian given name (see

Battista Battista is a given name and surname which means John the Baptist, Baptist in Italian language, Italian. Given named * Battista Agnese (died 1564), cartographer from the Republic of Genoa, who worked in the Venetian Republic * Battista Dossi, al ...

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

John the Baptist John the Baptist ( – ) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist ...

" in English, the French equivalent is "

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 K ...

". 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 (c.1511–1579), historian. * Giovanni Battista Agnello (fl. 1560–1577), author and alchemist. * Giovanni Battista Aleotti (1546–1636), architect. * Giovanni Battista Amendola (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 18 ...

(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 w ...

(1896-1961), writer and journalist. * Giovanni Battista Ballanti (1762–1835), sculptor. * Giovanni Battista Barbiani (1593–1650), painter. * Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716–1781), physicist. * Giovanni Battista Bellandi, sculptor. * Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823), explorer. * Giovanni Battista Bernero (1736–1796), sculptor. * Giovanni Battista Brocchi (1772–1826), mineralogist and geologist. * Giovanni Battista Bugatti (1780–1869), executioner. * Giovanni Battista Buonamente (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 F ...

(1733–1810), statesman and cardinal. * Giovanni Battista 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 in Venice. He studied pa ...

, painter, brother of Giacomo Casanova. *

Giovanni Battista Castello Giovanni Battista Castello (1500 or 1509–1569 or 1579) was an Italians, 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 ...

, painter. * Giovanni Battista Casti (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 (; ; 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 the viceroy of Naples, Cybo spent his ea ...

(1432–1492). * Giovanni Battista Cima (c.1459–c.1517), painter. * Giovanni Battista Cimaroli (1653–1714), painter. * Giovanni Battista Cini (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 (1557–1663), painter, sculptor, and architect. * Giovanni Battista de Campania (1633-1639), 64th Minister General of the OFM * Giovanni Battista Dieter (1903–1955), German priest. * Giovanni Battista Donati (1826–1873), astronomer. * Giovanni Battista Doni (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 (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 Baroque painter working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods. He is best known for h ...

(1639–1709), painter. *

Giovanni Battista Giraldi Giovanni Battista Giraldi (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, Cin ...

(1504–1573), novelist and poet. *

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

(1854–1925), zoologist. * Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1711–1786), luthier. *

Giovanni Battista Guarini Giovanni Battista Guarini (10 December 1538 – 7 October 1612) was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat. Courtier at Ferrara, diplomat and secretary to several ruling families, he served also at Florence and Urbino. He is best known as the a ...

(1538–1612), poet and diplomat. * Giovanni Battista Guelphi, 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 – 14 November 1540), known as Rosso Fiorentino (meaning "Florentine Redhead" in Italian) or Il Rosso ("The Redhead"), was an Italian Mannerist painter who worked in oil and fresco Fresco ( or ...

(1494–1540), Italian painter. * Giovanni Battista Lacchini (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 ( – 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court o ...

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

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

(1513–1586), painter. * Giovanni Battista Maini (1690–1752), sculptor. * Giovanni Battista Mancini (1714–1800), voice teacher. *

Giovanni Battista Martini Giovanni Battista or Giambattista Martini, (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 and a mentor to Mozart ...

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

Padua Padua ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 20 ...

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

Pope Paul VI Pope Paul 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 State from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXII ...

(1897–1978). *

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

(1682–1771), anatomist. *

Giovanni Battista Moroni Giovanni Battista Moroni, also known as Giambattista Moroni ( – 5 February 1578) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist school. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is considered one of the g ...

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

Pope Innocent X Pope Innocent 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 1655. Born in Rome of a family fro ...

(1574–1655). *

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Giovanni Battista Draghi (; 4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (), was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the g ...

(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 Pe ...

(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 (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 Catholic Church in Italy, Italian Catholic prelate who has served as Dean of the College of Cardinals since 2020. He was elevated to the rank of Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal in 2001 and s ...

(1934–), cardinal. *

Giovanni Battista Riccioli Giovanni Battista Riccioli (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 of ...

(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 Fer ...

(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 C ...

(1822–1894), archaeologist. * Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794–1854), singer. * Giovanni Battista Sammartini (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 name o ...

(1609–1685), painter. * Giovanni Battista Santini, architect. * Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668–1714), Jesuit priest and missionary. * Giovanni Battista Tempesti, painter. *

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( , ; 5 March 1696 – 27 March 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 import ...

(1696–1770), painter. * Giovanni Battista Trevano, architect. * Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (1702–1768), architect. * Giovanni Battista Venturi (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 (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 as ...

(1578–1650), actor and playwright. *

Giambattista Basile Giambattista Basile ( – 23 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 remembered for writi ...

(1575–1632), poet, courtier, and fairytale collector. *

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

(1530–1590), mathematician. *

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

(1740–1813), engraver and printer. * Giambattista De Curtis (1860–1926), painter and poet. * Giambattista Gelli (1498–1563), humanist. * Giambattista Marini (1569–1625), poet. * Giambattista Pittoni (1687–1767), painter. * Giambattista della Porta (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 com ...

, 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. * Giambattista Busi (born 1968), former racing driver

Giovan Battista

* Giovan Battista Aleotti (1546–1636), Italian architect *

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 ...

(1927–1999), Italian cartoonist * Giovan Battista Cavagna (c. 1545–1613), Italian architect, engineer, and painter * Giovan Battista della Cerva (c. 1515–1580), Italian painter * Giovan Battista Cini (1525–1586), Italian playwright * Giovan Battista di Crollalanza (1819–1892), Italian writer *

Giovan Battista Fabbri Giovan Battista Fabbri (8 March 1926 – 2 June 2015) was an Italian association football, football player and manager. Career Fabri managed a number of Italian club sides, including A.S. Varese 1910, Varese, S.P.A.L., SPAL, A.S.D. SanGiovanni ...

(1926–2015), Italian football player and manager * Giovan Battista Perasso aka Balilla, 18th century legendary revolutionary * Giovan Battista Pirovano (1937–2014), Italian footballer *

Giovan Battista Ruoppolo Giovan Battista Ruoppolo (1629–1693) was a Neapolitan painter of still-lifes. Life He was a pupil of Paolo Porpora (1617–1673), a contemporary of Salvatore Rosa. Additional Porpora pupils who formed a school of still-life painters in Naple ...

(1629–1693), Neapolitan painter {{given name Italian masculine given names Masculine given names