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 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 (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 secret ...

(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. For some years, Aleotti went to Ferrara, to work under Alfonso II d'Este where with Alessandro Balbi he designed the façade o ...

(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 1 ...

(1786–1863), astronomer and microscopist. * Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1896-1961), writer and journalist. * Giovanni Battista Ballanti (1762–1835), sculptor. * Giovanni Battista Barbiani (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 th ...

(1716–1781), physicist. * Giovanni Battista Bellandi, sculptor. * Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823), explorer. * Giovanni Battista Bernero (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 Unive ...

(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 Fra ...

(1733–1810), statesman and cardinal. * Giovanni Battista Caracciolo (1578–1635), artist. * Giovanni Battista Casanova, painter, brother of Giacomo Casanova. * Giovanni Battista Castello, painter. * Giovanni Battista Casti (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 (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 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 I ...

(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 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 (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 a ...

(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 Duk ...

(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 Gra ...

(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 Catania ...

(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. 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, 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 (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 (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 (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 Floren ...

(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 Bo ...

(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 perio ...

(1706–1784), musician. * Giovanni Battista Michelini (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 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. I ...

(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 '' ...

(1710–1736), composer. * Giovanni Battista Pescetti (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 (1720–1778), artist. *

Giovanni Battista di Quadro Giovanni Battista di Quadro (Polish language, 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 E ...

, 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 Bishop ...

(1934–), cardinal. * Giovanni Battista Riccioli (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 Ferm ...

(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 Ca ...

(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 Christia ...

(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 o ...

(1609–1685), painter. * Giovanni Battista Santini, architect. * Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668–1714), Jesuit priest and missionary. * Giovanni Battista Tempesti, painter. * Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), painter. * Giovanni Battista Trevano, architect. *

Giovanni Battista Vaccarini Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (3 February 1702 – 11 March 1768) was a Sicilian 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 pri ...

(1702–1768), architect. * Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746–1822), physicist. * Giovanni Battista Viotti (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.

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 a ...

(1578–1650), actor and playwright. * Giambattista Basile (1575–1632), poet, courtier, and fairytale collector. * Giambattista Benedetti (1530–1590), mathematician. * Giambattista Bodoni (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 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 ...

(1687–1767), painter. * Giambattista della Porta (1538–1615), scholar, polymath, and child prodigy. * Giambattista Valli, fashion designer. * Giambattista Vico (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 h ...

(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 Austria ...

, legendary revolutionary * Giovan Battista Pirovano (1937–2014), Italian footballer {{given name Italian masculine given names