Gioacchino is a masculine Italian given name, equivalent to the English
Joachim
Joachim was, according to Sacred tradition, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary (mother of Jesus), and the maternal grandfather of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Gospel of James, part of ...
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Gioacchino Assereto
Gioacchino Assereto (1600 – 28 June 1649) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period and one of the most prominent history painters active in Genoa in the first half of the 17th century.
Life
He initially apprenticed at age 12 with Lu ...
(1600–1649), Italian painter
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Gioacchino Cocchi (1720–1804), Italian composer
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Gioacchino Colombo
Gioacchino Colombo (9 January 1903 – 24 April 1988) was an Italian automobile engine designer.
Biography
Born in Legnano, Colombo began work as an apprentice to Vittorio Jano at Alfa Romeo. In 1937, he designed the 158 engine for the Alfet ...
(1903–1988), Italian automobile engine designer
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Gioacchino Conti (1714–1761), Italian soprano castrato opera singer
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Gioacchino La Barbera
Gioacchino La Barbera (born November 1959 in Altofonte) is a member of the Mafia who became a pentito. He was one of the key witnesses in the trial against the killers of Antimafia judge Giovanni Falcone.
La Barbera was born in Altofonte, in th ...
(born 1959), member of the Mafia who became a pentito
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Gioacchino La Lomia
Gioacchino La Lomia (3 March 1831 – 30 July 1905) - born Gaetano La Lomia, religious name Gioacchino Fedele da Canicattì - was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. La Lomia served as ...
(1831–1905), priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a missionary and a preacher
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Gioacchino Livigni
Gioacchino (Jack) Lauro Li Vigni is a tenor opera singer who performs internationally. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Palermo, Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and We ...
, tenor opera singer
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Gioacchino Navarro
Gioacchino Navarro (1748 – 1 January 1813) was a Maltese cleric, archaeologist, linguist and librarian. He is historically significant as the author of the earliest printed poems in the Maltese language, which appeared in François-Emmanuel de ...
(1748–1813), the Conventional Parish Priest of the Order of St. John, Malta
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Gioacchino Pecci
Pope Leo XIII (; born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2March 181020July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 until his death in July 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign of any pope, behind those of Peter the Ap ...
(1810–1903), Italian pope
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Gioacchino Prati
Gioacchino Prati (1790–1863) was an Italian revolutionary and patriot, a supporter of the Risorgimento who was exiled for his activities in 1821. He was later a Saint-Simonian.
Life
Prati was born in Tenno, County of Tyrol and educated in Salzbu ...
(1790–1863), Italian revolutionary and patriot
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Gioacchino Toma
Gioacchino Toma (24 January 1836 12 January 1891) was an Italian art instructor and painter, noted primarily for historic, realistic and Genre painting, genre subjects in a Romanticism, Romantic style.
Toward the end of his life, Toma authored ...
(1836–1891), Italian painter
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Gioacchino Ventura di Raulica
Gioacchino Ventura (dei Baroni) di Raulica (8 December 1792 in Palermo – 2 August 1861 in Versailles), was a Sicilian Italian Roman Catholic pulpit orator, patriot, philosopher, writer and theologian, also known for his support of the caus ...
, Italian Roman Catholic pulpit orator, patriot, philosopher and writer
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Gioachino Giussani
Gioachino is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Gioachino Greco (1600–c. 1634), Italian chess player
*Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian ...
, Italian master luthier born in Milano 1949
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Gioacchino Spiezio
Gioacchino is a masculine Italian given name, equivalent to the English Joachim. Notable people with the name include:
* Gioacchino Assereto (1600–1649), Italian painter
* Gioacchino Cocchi (1720–1804), Italian composer
* Gioacchino Colombo ( ...
(1935-2020), Italian-American Korean War veteran and aerospace engineer, contributor to the Apollo 14 lunar module
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Gioachino
Gioachino is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Gioachino Greco (1600–c. 1634), Italian chess player
*Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian ...
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Santi Gioacchino ed Anna al Tuscolano
Santi Gioacchino ed Anna al Tuscolano is a church in Rome. The church is dedicated to Saints Joachim and Anne, parents of the Virgin Mary.
On 28 June 1988, this church was erected as a cardinal's title. The first two cardinal priests to hold ti ...
, church on the Via Monte Polacco in Rome
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