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Gião (Santa Maria da Feira)
Gião Gião is a Portuguese parish, located in the municipality of Santa Maria da Feira. It has a population of 1,676 inhabitants and a total area of 3.57 Km².   Parishes of Santa Maria da Feira municipality ..
GIO
GIO is a computer bus standard developed by SGI and used in a variety of their products in the 1990s as their primary expansion system. GIO was similar in concept to competing standards such as NuBus or (later) PCI, but saw little use outside SGI and severely limited the devices available on their p..
Gioacchino Colombo
Italian Gioacchino Colombo was an automobile engine designer. He began work as an apprentice to the great Vittorio Jano at Alfa Romeo. In 1937, Colombo designed the 158 engine for the Alfetta and caught the attention of Enzo Ferrari. After World War II, Ferrari asked Colombo to design a small V12..
Gioacchino Conti
Gioacchino Conti (28 February 1714 — 1761), also known as Gizziello, was a noted Italian castrato opera singer. He often performed at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and was a rival of Gaetano Majorano (Caffarelli). He also performed in London, for example at the première of Handel's opera Atalan..
Gioacchino Greco
Gioacchino Greco (1600–c.1634) was an Italian chess player and writer. Greco recorded some of the first chess games on record, 77 in total. His games, all against anonymous opponents ("NN"), were quite possibly constructs, but acted as highly useful tools for spotting opening traps. Histo..
Gioacchino Rossini
Portrait Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), and Guillaume Tell (William Te..
Gioacchino Ventura di Raulica
Gioacchino Ventura (dei Baroni) di Raulica was an Italian Roman catholic pulpit orator, patriot, philosopher and writer. Biography he was born at Palermo, in Sicily, on 8 December 1792. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1808, and in 1817, when the Society was suppressed in Sicily, joined the Theat..
Giocangga
Giocangga (Manchu: ; Chinese: 覺昌安) (d. 1582) was the grandfather of Nurhaci, the man who was to unify the Jurchen peoples and begin building the Manchu state. Both he and his son Taksi went to the aid of Nurhaci's uncle Atai whose city was being besieged by a rival Jurchen cheiftan Nikan Wail..
Giocattolo
Giocattolo was the name of an unsuccessful Australian sports car; the name comes from the Italian word for toy. Only 15 cars were built before the company folded. The car was based on a heavily modified Alfa Romeo Sprint with a rear mounted Holden V8 engine. External links [Giocattolo History..
Gioconda Belli
Gioconda Belli . Gioconda Belli (born 1948 in Managua) is an author, poet and novelist, who was part of the Nicaraguan resistance movement called Sandinistas (FSLN), which fought dictator Somoza. Belli went into exile to Mexico in 1975. In 1988, her book "La Mujer Habitada" ( "The Inhabited Wo..
Gioia Bruno
Gioia Bruno Gioia Carmen Bruno (born June 11, 1963) is a popular music singer, most noted for her membership in the group Exposé. Gioia was born in Bari, Italy, during a vacation her parents took. She was raised in New Jersey. At the age of 16, she started singing in night clubs with band..
Gioia dei Marsi
Gioia dei Marsi is a comune and town in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy ..
Gioia del Colle
Gioia del Colle is a town in the province of Bari, Apulia, Italy. It is located at around [40°47′60″N, 16°55′0″E]. Puglia · Communes of the province of Bari Acquaviva delle Fonti | Adelfia | Alberobello | Altamura | Andria | Bari | Barletta | Binetto | Bisceglie | B..
Gioia Tauro
Gioia Tauro is a Municipality belonging to the province of Reggio Calabria, in Calabria (Italy). Winds Sirocco, a hot dry wind originating in the desert of Sahara (from South-East);Libeccio, very dangerous for shippers (to be avoided - from South-West);Mistral (Ponente), the predominant and quiet..
Gioiosa Ionica
Gioiosa Ionica is a town in Italy in the province of Reggio Calabria, region of Calabria. It lies near the east coast of Calabria and covers an area of 35 km². Calabria · Communes of the province of Reggio Calabria Africo | Agnana Calabra | Anoia | Antonimina | Ardore ..
Gioja (crater)
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Giolitti
This article is about a Càfe. For the Italian statesman, see Giovanni Giolitti Giolitti is a well-known càfe, pastry shop and ice cream parlor in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1900 and is located at via Uffici del Vicario near Piazza della Rotonda and the Pantheon. The càfe is most famous for i..
Giomar Guevara
Giomar Antonio Guevara [gay-VAH-rah] (born October 23, 1972 in Miranda State, Venezuela) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and switch-hitter batter who played for the Seattle Mariners (1997-99). Playing as a defensive backup for Alex Rodriguez, Guevara batted .204 with two RBI i..
Gion
Exclusive restaurants line the streets of Gion Gion (祇園 or 祇をん) is a district of Kyoto, Japan, originally developed in the middle ages, in front of Yasaka Shrine. This part of Kyoto has two hanamachi (geisha districts): Gion Kobu and Gion Higashi. Despite the considerable ..
Gionna Cabrera
Gionna Jimenez Cabrera (born on August 28, 1982) is a professional model and beauty pageant winner from the Philippines. She is the daughter of Rod E. Cabrera, and Nida Jimenez and presently lives in Pasig City, Metro Manila. Cabrera was raised in the metropolis and studied in private schools, M..
Gion Matsuri
is an annual festival that takes place in Kyoto and is said to be one of the most famous, if not the most famous festival in all of Japan. It spans the entire month of July and is crowned by the beautiful parade, the on July 17th. For 3 consecutive nights before the massive parade, known as Y..
GIOP
In distributed computing, GIOP (General Inter-ORB Protocol) is the abstract protocol by which Object request brokers (ORBs) communicate. Standards associated with the protocol are maintained by the Object Management Group (OMG). IIOP (Internet Inter-Orb Protocol) is the implementation of GIOP for ..
Giora Epstein
Giora Epstein (Hebrew: גיורא אפשטיין) (born 1938) was an Israeli fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and is the current modern-day "ace of aces" in shooting down jet fighters since 1970. Epstein has a total of 17 downed aircraft to his name, all of which are confirmed. Epstein shot ..
Giora Feidman
Giora Feidman (b. Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 26, 1936) is a klezmer clarinetist. He was born to a Jewish immigrant to Argentina. He began his career as the youngest clarinetist ever to play with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He left the orchestra in the early 1970s to begin his solo care..
Giordano
Giordano may refer to: Giordano International, a Hong Kong based international clothing retailer It may also refer to the following persons: Bruno Giordano film actorGiordano Bruno 16th century philosopherLuca Giordano 17th century artistUmberto Giordano 19th – 20th century composer..
Giordano (Hong Kong)
Giordano (佐丹奴; ) is a Hong Kong retailer of affordable casual wear for men, women and children. It is seen as Hong Kong's version of Gap Inc. Giordano specializes in merchandising economic quality clothes ranging from T-Shirts, Long Sleeve Shirts and Denim jeans. Founded in 1981 by Jimmy L..
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno. Giordano Bruno (1548–February 17, 1600) was an Italian philosopher, priest, astronomer/astrologer, and occultist. Bruno is perhaps best known for his system of mnemonics and as an early proponent of the idea of extrasolar planets and extraterrestrial life. Burned at the ..
Giordano Bruno (crater)
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Giordano Orsini
Giordano Orsini (d. 1438) was a member of the College of Cardinals and enjoyed an extensive career in the early 15th century. He was part of the Orsini family. In 1405 Orsini was made a member of the College of Cardinals by Innocent VII. At his death he was dean of the College. He is buried in..
Giordano Pierleoni
Giordano (or Jordan) Pierleoni (in contemporary Latin, Jordanus filius Petrus Leonis) was the son of the Consul Pier Leoni and therefore brother of Antipope Anacletus II and leader of the Commune of Rome which the people set up in 1143. According to Gregorovius, he was a "maverick" in the great Pie..
Giorgetto Giugiaro
Giorgetto Giugiaro Giorgetto Giugiaro (August 7, 1938) is an Italian car designer. He initiated the "folded paper" era of the 1970s where the cars were designed with straight lines and sharp edges. As well as a number of supercars, he is responsible for the design of some of the most popular ..
Giorgia Palmas
Giorgia Palmas is an Italian television personality. She was born on 5 March 1982 in Cagliari, Sardinia. She became famous by appearances in the Italian television show Striscia la notizia. Career Giorgia began her career in the year 2000, winning second place at Miss World. In 2001, she was in Buo..
Giorgia Todrani
Giorgia Todrani, best known as Giorgia (born April 26, 1971) is an Italian female singer. Biography Giorgia was born in Rome. Her debut was on the stage of the Ariston theatre for the 1994 Sanremo Music Festival when she sung "E poi" in the category Nuove Proposte (New acts). In that festival she'..
Giorgione
Pastoral Concert (c. 1508). Louvre, Paris. Giorgione (c. 1477 — 1510) is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, one of the seminal artists of the High Renaissance in Venice. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, and for the fact that only very few (..
Giorgios Siantos
Giorgios Siantos (-May 1947) was a Greek communist and acting general secretary of the Communist Party of Greece and a leader of the National Liberation Front (EAM) and Greek National Liberation Army (ELAS) during the German occupation. In early 1947, Siantos died of heart attack in the private cl..
Giorgio Abetti
Giorgio Abetti (October 5, 1882 - August 24, 1982) was an Italian solar astronomer. He was born in Padova, Italy, the son of noted astronomer Antonio Abetti. He was educated at the Universities of Padua and Rome. He began his career at the Collegio Romano observatory in Rome, Italy as an assistant ..
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben (born 1942) is an Italian philosopher who teaches at the Università IUAV di Venezia. He also holds a professorship at the European Graduate School, teaches at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy, and has held visiting appoint..
Giorgio Almirante
Giorgio Almirante (June 27, 1914 - May 22, 1988) was an Italian politician, the founder and leader of the Italian Social Movement until his retirement in 1987. Category Almirante was born at Salsomaggiore Terme, in Emilia Romagna. He spent his childhood following his parents, who worked in the st..
Giorgio Amendola
Giorgio Amendola (21 November 1907 - 5 June 1980) was an Italian writer and politician. Born in Rome in 1907, he was son of Giovanni Amendola, a liberal anti-fascist beaten by killers hired by Benito Mussolini and successively dead in 1926 in Cannes, consequently to that attack. After this episode,..
Giorgio Andreoli
Giorgio Andreoli, named also Mastro Giorgio Andreoli or Mastro Giorgio, was born between 1465 and 1470 in Intra, on the Lake Maggiore, and died in Gubbio, where he spent most of his life, in 1555. He is considered to be the most important potter of the italian Renaissance. He is famous as inventor o..
Giorgio Armani
Armani's boutique in Chicago. Giorgio Armani (born 11 July, 1934) is a famous Italian fashion designer particularly noted for his menswear. Contents 1 Biography2 In the news3 Branding4 External links Biography Armani was born in Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna. He originall..
Giorgio Armani S.p.A.
Giorgio Armani S.p.A. is an Italian fashion company founded in 1975 by Giorgio Armani and Sergio Galeotti with a starting capital of $10,000 that they got from selling their volkswagen. The company designs and manufactures products in several categories including fashion accessories, apparel, cosmet..
Giorgio Baffo
Giorgio Baffo (Venice, 1694 - Venice, 1768), was a famous poet and senator of the Venetian Republic. He was, together with Ruzante, Carlo Goldoni and Berto Barbarani one of the major writers of venetian language. He was a prolific author of licencious sonnets. ..
Giorgio Baglivi
Giorgio Baglivi (Ragusa, 1668 - Rome, 1707) was an Italian doctor and medical researcher, anatomist and early pathologist. He made important contributions to clinical education, based on his own medical practice, and in De Fibra Motrice advanced the theory that the solid parts of organs are more cr..
Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani (March 4, 1916 - April 13, 2000) was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. Biography Born in Bologna, he studied at the University of Bologna with the art historian Roberto Longhi, and privately with the historian and philosopher Benedetto Cro..
Giorgio Bassi
Giorgio Bassi (born 20 January 1934 in Milan, Italy) was a Formula One driver who raced for the BRM team. He was also a regular on the Italian Formula 3 and took a class win in the 1965 Targa Florio in a 1-litre ASA Prototype. Giorgio Bassi ..
Giorgio Basta
Giorgio Basta Giorgio Basta (1544-1607), was a general of Albanian descent, employed by the Holy Roman Emperor to command Habsburg forces in the Long War of (1591-1606) and later to administer Transylvania as an Imperial vassal. On his orders, his ally Michael of Wallachia, who unified Transyl..
Giorgio Belladonna
Giorgio Belladonna (June 7,1923- May 12,1995) was an Italian bridge player, one of the most famous in bridge history. He won 16 World championship titles with Blue Team, playing with Walter Avarelli and Benito Garozzo. Belladonna authored the Roman club bidding system. External links [WBF Entr..
Giorgio Biandrata
Giorgio Biandrata or Blandrata (c. 1515 - 1588), Italian physician and polemic, who came of the De Biandrate family, powerful from the early part of the 13th century, was born at Saluzzo, the youngest son of Bernardino Biandrata. He graduated in arts and medicine at Montpellier in 1533, and special..
Giorgio Borg Olivier
Giorgio Borg Olivier (5 July 1911 - 29 October 1980) was three times Prime Minister of Malta (1950 to 1955 and 1962 to 1971) as the Leader of the Nationalist Party. He was also Leader of the Opposition between 1955 and 1958 and again between 1971 and 1978. Dr. G. Borg Olivier was born in Valletta. ..
Giorgio Canali
Giorgio Canali Giorgio Canali is a male pornographic actor (porn star) from Italy who appeared in gay adult films from 1981 to 1985. He sometimes appeared in films as Rocco Rizzoli. Videography The Best Little Warehouse in L.A.The Best of Colt, Vol. 1The Best of Colt, Vol. 2The Best of Colt, ..
Giorgio Carollo
Giorgio Carollo (born on 30 March 1944 in Vicenza) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-East with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries and its Committee on Legal Affairs. He is a subs..
Giorgio Cavazzano
Giorgio Cavazzano (born October 19, 1947, Venice) is an Italian comic strip artist. He started his career at age 14, as an inker for Romano Scarpa. He made stories about Disney characters Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck and others. Cavazzano's work is known for combining the traditional r..
Giorgio Chiellini
Giorgio Chiellini (born August 14, 1984 in Pisa) is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Juventus of the Italian Serie A. He is an attacking left back who has also played in midfield. Chiellini started his career with Livorno where he played for two years each in Serie C1 and Serie B. He..
Giorgio Chinaglia
Giorgio Chinaglia. Giorgio Chinaglia (born January 24, 1947) is a former football striker from Italy. Biography Born at Carrara, Tuscany, Chinaglia grew up in Wales and began his career with local club Swansea City and also played for Massese, Internapoli, and Lazio in his native Italy. He m..
Giorgio de' Buondelmonti
Giorgio de' Buondelmonti, ruler of Epirus in Ioannina in 1411. Giorgio was the young son of Esau de' Buondelmonti by his third wife Eudokia Balšić. When his father died on February 6, 1411, his mother attempted to maintain control of Ioannina in the name of her infant son. Eudokia was not popul..
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 – November 20, 1978) often known as Népo, was an influential pre-Surrealist Greek-Italian painter born in Volos, Greece to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement. Contents 1 Life and work2 Legac..
Giorgio Di Centa
Giorgio Di Centa (October 7, 1972, Tolmezzo, province of Udine) is an Italian cross country skier who won two gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, including the individual 50 km freestyle race. He is brother to Olympic gold medallist Manuela. Giorgio Di Centa began to practice cross country sk..
Giorgio Duboin
Giorgio Duboin (born September 30 1959 in Parma) is Italian bridge player, winner of 4 Bermuda Bowls and World Bridge Olympiads, including the last Bermuda Bowl 2005. He regularly plays with Norberto Bocchi. Duboin currently lives in Turin. External links [WBF profile][Bridge Plaza ..
Giorgio Federico Ghedini
Giorgio Federico Ghedini (born July 11, 1892, in Cuneo; died March 25, 1965, in Nervi) was an Italian composer. Works Concerto dell'albatro (1943)Violin Concerto "Il belprato"Concerto for viola, viola d'amore, and string orchestra Operas Gringoire (1915)Maria d'Alessandria (1937)Re Hassan (1939)La ..
Giorgio Forattini
This article lacks information on the [Importanceimportance] of the subject matter. If you are familiar with it, please expand the article, or discuss its significance on the talk page. Giorgio Forattini was born in Rome in 1931. High school diploma (Liceo Classico) In 1953 he quit univer..
Giorgio Francia
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Giorgio Gaber
Giorgio Gaber (born January 25, 1939 in Milan; died January 1, 2003 in Montemagno) was an Italian actor, composer, and musician. He is interred in the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan. ..
Giorgio Gandini del Grano
Giorgio Gandini del Grano (c. Unknown - 1538) was a short-lived Italian painter of the Parmesan school of Painting. He was selected in 1535 to complete decoration of the apse of the Duomo of Parma. He was alleged to have been a pupil of Antonio da Correggio. His masterpiece is the St. Michael altap..
Giorgio Ghezzi
Giorgio Ghezzi. Giorgio Ghezzi (born July 10, 1930 in Cesenatico, nicknamed "Kamikaze") is an Italian former football (soccer) player. He played at Internazionale as goalkeeper for 7 years, from 1951 to 1958, for totally 191 matches (Serie A, European Cup and Coppa Italia). He won 2 ..
Giorgio Grassi
Giorgio Grassi (born October 27, 1935 in Milan, Italy), studied architecture at the Polytecnic University of Milan where he graduated in 1960. He worked for the magazine Casabella for 3 years until 1961 and has been professor at a variety of universities since 1965. Since 1977 he's been teaching arc..
Giorgio I, Prince of Seborga
Giorgio I, born 1936 as Giorgio Carbone, is head of state of Seborga. As the independent status of this principality is not generally accepted, he is only recognised as such inside Seborga. In the early 1960s Carbone, the head of the local flower-growers co-operative, began promoting the idea that ..
Giorgio Lamberti
Giorgio Lamberti (born January 28, 1969), is an Italian former swimmer. Biography Lamberti was born in Brescia, Lombardy. At age six, his body weak and frail, doctors suggested swimming to build himself up. He began swimming competitively. At age 17, in 1986 he won his first of Italian Nationa..
Giorgio La Malfa
Giorgio La Malfa (Milano 1939) Son of Ugo La Malfa, long-time Italian political leader and minister, secretary of the Italian Republican Party from 1987 to 1993, and again from 1994 to 2001. From 2001 he is president of the party and from the same year to 2005 he has been President of the Finances ..
Giorgio Locatelli
Giorgio Locatelli is a celebrity television chef working in the United Kingdom. When he was a child, Giorgio Locatelli's family ran a Michelin-starred restaurant in northern Italy. Giorgio trained in various restaurants in Italy and Switzerland before travelling to London to work with Anton Edelma..
Giorgio Malinverni
Giorgio Malinverni is a Swiss law professor. On 27 June 2006, he was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as the judge representing Switzerland on the European Court of Human Rights.[Swiss government press release] of 27 June 2006. References External links &#..
Giorgio Mammoliti
George or Giorgio Mammoliti (born September 20, 1961) is a city councillor in Toronto, Canada, representing one of the two York West wards. Previously, he served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995. A landscaper with Metro Toronto Housing Authority, he rose to beco..
Giorgio Mondini
Giorgio Mondini (Born July 19, 1980) is an Automobile racing driver from Geneva, Switzerland. Giorgio began his competitive racing career at the age of 21, when he came 26th in the Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup series. In 2002 he made his way up to 17th place, before moving on to Formula Renault V6 E..
Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandi (June 20, 1890 - June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter who specialized in still life. Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna in 1890. In 1907 he went to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti. The works of his formative years show him experimenting with an idiom related to Cézanne and t..
Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio Moroder (born Giovanni Giorgio Moroder on April 26, 1940 in Ortisei, Italy) is an Italian record producer, songwriter and performer, whose groundbreaking work with synthesizers during the 1970s was a significant influence on techno and electronic music in general. Particularly well known ar..
Giorgio Napolitano
Giorgio Napolitano (born June 29 1925 in Naples, Italy), an Italian politician and former lifetime senator, is the President of the Italian Republic. His election took place on May 10 2006 and his term started with the swearing-in ceremony held on May 15. Contents 1 Biography2 Election..
Giorgio Oscari
Giorgio Oscari is an Italian aikido teacher. He holds today the grade of 5th dan in Iwama Ryu aikido and 5th dan Iwama Ryu aiki-ken and aiki-jo. Oscari started studying aikido in 1968, when he was 16. He visited Morihiro Saito for the first time in 1985. Since 1998 he has been appointed as national..
Giorgio Pacchioni
Giorgio Pacchioni (b. 1947) is an Italian performer, professor, and composer. He is chair of recorder at Martini Conservatory in Bologna, Italy. Pacchioni is a musicologist specializing in the revival of Baroque composition in the modern era and has gained a following over the Internet for his Neo-..
Giorgio Pantano
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Giorgio Panto
Giorgio Panto is an Italian regional politician based in Veneto Region. After being a long-time supporter of the Lega Nord, in 2004 he founded a new autonomist, venetist and fiscal federalist party called the North-East Project. In 2005 regional elections in Veneto, he scored 6.0% as candidate for t..
Giorgio Perlasca
Giorgio or Jorge Perlasca (January 31, 1910—August 15, 1992) was an Italian who posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved thousands of Jews from Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Early life Perlasca was born in Como and grew up in Maserà, province of Padua..
Giorgio Rocca
Giorgio Rocca (born August 6,1975, Chur, Switzerland) is an Italian Alpine skier, a specialist of Slalom skiing. Together with Marc Girardelli and Ingemar Stenmark, he is the sole skier to have won 5 Alpine Skiing World Cup slalom in a row, a result he scored in the 2005/2006 season: only Alberto To..
Giorgio Ronconi
Giorgio Ronconi (1810-1890) was an Italian baritone vocalist. He learnt to sing from his father Domenico, who had been a celebrated tenor in his time, and made his debut in 1831 in Pavia. After singing in Italy for some years with ever-growing success, he appeared for the first time in England, in 1..
Giorgio Sadotti
Giorgio Sadotti (born 1955) UK. Probably the most underrated of the YBA, Giorgio Sadotti is a conceptual artist based in London. One of his most interesting work is Went to America Didn't say a word (1999), this is how he described it: "On the morning of Saturday March 20th, 1999, I flew on Americ..
Giorgio Samorini
Giorgio Samorini (born in 1957, in Bologna, Italy) is a respected ethnobotanist and psychedelics researcher. He has published many essays and monographs regarding the use of psychoactive compounds and sacred plants. He was a frequent contributor to, and sometime editor of: Eleusis the Journal of..
Giorgio Santelli
Maestro Giorgio Santelli (November 25 1897 – 1985) was a legendary fencer and fencing master who was the largest mid-20th century influence in raising the quality and popularity of fencing in the United States, and creator of one of the best-known fencing equipment manufacturers. Born Novembe..
Giorgio Scarlatti
Giorgio Scarlatti (October 2, 1921 - July 26, 1990) was a Formula One driver from Italy. He participated in 15 grands prix, debuting on May 13, 1956. He scored 1 championship point. Complete Formula One results (Note: grands prix in bold denote points scoring races.) Yr Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 ..
Giorgio Sonnino
Giorgio Sonnino was the Italian foreign minister credited as Italy's representative during the negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. ..
Giorgio Strehler
Giorgio Strehler (born in Barcola, 14 August 1921 - died, 25 December 1997) is one of the most influential directors of Italian opera and theatre. With the help of Paolo Grassi, he founded the Piccola Scala in Milan on 14 May 1947. Their innaugural show was “The Hotel of the Poor Ones” by Ma..
Giorgio Tozzi
Giorgio Tozzi (born January 8 1923, in Chicago, Illinois) was for many years a leading bass with the Metropolitan Opera, and was seen in leading roles in nearly every major opera house worldwide. Tozzi studied at DePaul University with Rosa Raisa, Giacomo Rimini and John Daggett Howell (although he ..
Giorgio Vanzetta
Giorgio Vanzetta (born January 1, 1959) is a former Italian cross country skier who competed from 1982 to 2002. His best known victory was part of the 4 x 10km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. He also won three medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertvill..
Giorgio Vasari
Vasari's self-portrait Giorgio Vasari (July 30, 1511 - June 27, 1574) was an Italian painter and architect, known for his famous biographies of Italian artists. Contents 1 Biography2 The ''Vite''2.1 Biographies2.1.1 Part 12.1.2 Part 22.1.3 Part 33 External..
Giorgio Vido
Giorgio Vido is a Venetist politician. Elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies for the Liga Veneta-Lega Nord, he left the party in 1995. In 2000 he contributed to the foundation of the Fronte Marco Polo with Fabio Padovan. After a dismal result in the 2000 regional elections (1.2%) he managed to ..
Giorgio Zott
Giorgio Zott is a fictional charater from Time Crisis series. He appears in Time Crisis 3. History Zott is the leader of the Zagorias Army. He plans to dominate Astigos. Zott sent out his army to attack the VSSE agents after discovering them. He plans to launch the missiles at Astigos. In comba..
Giorgi Arveladze
Giorgi Arveladze is a head of Administration of President of Georgia, was member of parliament in the nation of Georgia, and has served as the secretary general of the ruling United National Movement party, and the head of Georgia's Parliamentary permanent Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assemb..
Giorgi Baramidze
Giorgi Baramidze Giorgi Baramidze (born 1968 -) is a Georgian politician and current State Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration. He was born in Tbilisi on January 5, 1968. He graduated from the Technical University of Georgia, Faculty of Chemical Technologies in 1992. Mr. Baramidze also st..
Giorgi Chanturia
Giorgi Chanturia (1959-1994) was a prominent Georgian politician and the National Democratic Party leader who was murdered in Tbilisi, Georgia in December 1994. He entered national politics by reviving the Georgian National Democratic Party (NDP) as an informal anti-Communist oppositional organiza..
Giorgi Gakhokidze
Giorgi Gakhokidze (born November 5, 1975 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian footballer. He currently plays as a forward for the Dutch Eredivisie club FC Twente and the Georgian national team. He started his career at Metalurg Rustavi and has since played mainly in Russia and the Netherlands. Playing career ..
Giorgi Hristov
Giorgi Hristov (born January 30, 1976 in Bitola, now Republic of Macedonia, then part of Yugoslavia) is a Macedonian football striker who currently plays for Debreceni VSC. He was playing for Partizan Belgrade when English team Barnsley signed him for £1.5 million, a club record fee. Following the..
Giorgi Japaridze
Giorgi Japaridze is a logician, at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. In the past his contributions were primarily into the areas of provability logic and interpretability logic. Currently he is best known for his work on computability logic (CL). Technically CL is a game logic: it un..
Giorgi Kartvelishvili
Giorgi Kartvelishvili - (Georgian: გიორგი ქართველიშვილი) (1827 – 1901) - famous Georgian public figure, benefactor, and businessman. Kartvelishvili owned a fishing and timber manufacturing enterprises in Georgia's Shida Kartli province and ran a sizabl..
Giorgi Kvinitadze
Giorgi Kvinitadze Giorgi Kvinitadze (Georgian: გიორგი კვინიტაძე) (1874-1970) was a Georgian general and one of the most prominent military leaders of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. Born in 1874 in ..
Giorgi Mazniashvili
Giorgi Mazniashvili (Georgian: გიორგი მაზნიაშვილი) (1872 -1937) was a Georgian general and one of the most prominent military figures in the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921). During the service in the Russian army, he was also known by a Russian transliter..
Giorgi Saakadze
Giorgi Saakadze (1570 – October 3, 1629) was a Georgian military commander. Holding a post of mouravi (governor) of Tbilisi for years, he was dubded the Great Mouravi (Didi Mouravi) and was known to Persians as Mourav Beg. Occasionally serving in the Persian and Ottoman armies, he was actively inv..
Giorgi Sanaia
Giorgi Sanaia, sometimes spelled as Giorgi Sanaya (in Georgian: გიორგი სანაია) (1975-2001) was a Georgian television journalist of the independent broadcasting company Rustavi 2 who was murdered in controversial circumstances in..
Giorgi Tsereteli
Giorgi Tsereteli Giorgi Tsereteli (გიორგი წერეთელი in Georgian. October 8, 1904-September 9, 1973) was a distinguished Georgian scientist and public benefactor, founder of the well-known Georgian scientific school of Oriental Studies and Arabist of world renown, fo..
Giorgi Vazagashvili
Giorgi Vazagashvili (born April 19, 1974) is a Georgian judoka. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Half Lightweight (60-66 kg) category, together with Girolamo Giovinazzo of Italy. ..
Giorgi VI the Minor
Giorgi VI the Minor (Giorgi VI Mtsire, გიორგი VI მცირე, in Georgian) (d. 1313), from the House of Bagrationi was King of Georgia in 1311-1313. Son of King David VIII, he was appointed as King of Georgia (actually, only the eastern p..
Giorgos Alkaios
Giorgos Alkaios (24 December, 1971 - ) is a Greek pop musician, born in Athens. His career started in 1989 when he participated in a Greek television casting show. After a short period of stage acting, Alkaios dedicated himself to music. His first single, "Ti Ti," made him highly popular in Greece. ..
Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos
Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos (b. September 18, 1952, Athens) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for New Democracy ; part of the European People's Party. ..
Giorgos Kapoutzidis
Giorgos Kapoutzidis (Γιώργος Καπουντζίδης) is a Greek actor, script writer and the creator of the successful TV series "Savatogenimenes" (Σαββατογεννημένες in Greek, meaning : women born on a Saturday)and "Sto para pente" (Στο παρά πέντε) http://www.di..
Giorgos Karagounis
Giorgos Karagounis (Greek: Γιώργος Καραγκούνης; born March 6, 1977, in Pirgos, Greece) is a midfielder for SL Benfica and Greece. He scored the first goal in Greece's surprising win over Portugal in the 2004..
Giorgos Katsaros
Giorgos Katsaros is a famous greek musician and composer. He plays the alto saxophone.He made a variety of recordings collaborating with other greek musical giants, such as Yanni Theodoridis and Mimis Plessas. ..
Giorgos Seferis
The house where Seferis was born and raised in Urla (source&permission: www.yorgoseferis.com) Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης) (February 19, 1900 – September 20, 1971) was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century. He also pursued a career in the Greek for..
Giorgos Toussas
Giorgos Toussas (born September 8, 1954) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Greece; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left. ..
Giornale del Popolo
Giornale del Popolo is a regional newspaper based in Lugano, Switzerland. The Italian-language daily has a distribution of 22,000 (2003). Editor-in-chief is GianMaria Pusterla. Since 2004, the newspaper is owned to 49% by the publisher of Corriere del Ticino, a majority of 51% remains with the Dioc..
Giorno Poetry Systems
Founded in 1965, Giorno Poetry Systems was an American artist collective and non-profit organisation founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno with the direct aim to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audiovisu..
Giosafat Barbaro
Giosafat Barbaro (Josaphat; Barbarigo, Barberigo (The -igo suffix is typically Venetian)); (1413-1494) was a famous merchant and explorer. External links [Travels of Josaphat Barbaro Ambassador from Venice to Tanna in 1436] ..
Gioseffo Guami
Gioseffo Guami (c.1540 – 1611) (also Giuseppe) was an Italian composer, organist, and singer of the late Renaissance Venetian School. He was a prolific composer of madrigals and instrumental music, and was renowned as one of the finest organists in Italy in the late 16th century; he was also ..
Gioseffo Zarlino
Gioseffo Zarlino (January 31 or March 22, 1517 – February 4, 1590), was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was possibly the most famous music theorist between Aristoxenus and Rameau, and made a large contribution to the theory of counterpoint as well as to musical tu..
Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Carducci Giosuè Carducci (July 27, 1835 – near Lucca, February 16, 1907) was an Italian poet, one of Italy's greatest, and a teacher. He was very influential and was regarded as the unofficial national poet of modern Italy. He was born in Val di Castello, a small town in the no..
Giottiline
Giottiline is an Italian mobile home manufacturer and producer of the small scissor doored minicar the Giottiline Ginko. ..
Giottiline Ginko
The Giottiline Ginko is a small minicar from Italian motor home producer Giottiline, that features a 500cc petrol or diesel engine and scissor style front doors. ..
Giottino
Giottino (1324 - 1357) was an early Florentine painter. Giorgio Vasari is the principal authority in regard to this artist; but it is not by any means easy to bring the details of his narrative into harmony with such facts as can now be verified. It would appear that there was a painter of the ..
Giotto
Giotto may refer to: Giotto di Bondone an Italian painter.ESA space mission for the observation of Halley's comet was the Giotto missionThe [Giotto programming language] for real-time embedded systems.Ferrero Giotto a brand of round wafer-based snacks.Giotto, a psychometric test to measur..
Giotto's Bell Tower
Giotto’s bell tower (campanile) stands on the Cathedral square (Piazza del Duomo) in Florence, Italy. This bell tower is one of the showpieces of the Florentine gothic style. Standing isolated next to the Cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore and in front of the Baptistery of St. John, this splendi..
Giotto Bizzarrini
Giotto Bizzarrini (June 6, 1926 - ?) was an automobile engineer active from the 1950s through 1970s. He was chief engineer at Ferrari in the 1950s, working on such notables as the Ferrari 250 GTO. He split from the company in a major upheval in 1961, forming his own Bizzarrini company in 1963. Bi..
Giotto di Bondone
Statue of Giotto di Bondone, close to the Uffizi. Giotto di Bondone (Colle di Vespignano, near Florence 1267 – January 8, Florence 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed..
Giotto mission
In this artist's concept, Giotto points its white high-gain antenna dish towards earth with the ring of solar cells facing the sun. The hidden face towards the bottom right collects information on comets. Giotto was a European unmanned space mission from the European Space Agency, intended t..
Gioura
Gioura is a Greek island in the Sporades. ..
Giovane Elber
Elber de Souza (born July 23, 1972 in Londrina, Brazil) is a football (soccer) striker. Elber is mostly referred to as Giováne Elber (sometimes also mistakenly as Giovanni Elber), which is a German variation of his Italian nickname il giòvane Elber ("the young Elber"). Giovane Elber has also pro..
Giovane Scuola
The Giovane Scuola ("Young School") were a group of Italian composers (mostly operatic) which included Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano, Cilea, and Perosi. Most of the composers of the Giovane Scuola movement were also Veristi, i.e, members of the Verismo movement. ..
Giovanna Amati
Giovanna Amati ..
Giovanna d'Arco
Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc) is an operatic dramma lirico with a prelude and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the play Die Jungfrau von Orleans by Friedrich von Schiller. First performance: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 15, 1845. ..
Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Giovanna Mezzogiorno (born November 9, 1974) is an Italian theater and film actress. Biography Giovanna Mezzogiorno was born in Rome to two actors, Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Cecilia Stacchi. After her studies in actor practice, she worked for two years in Paris in Peter Brook's theater laboratory. H..
Giovanni
Giovanni may refer to: Giovanni Silva de Oliveira, usually known as Giovanni, Brazilian soccer playerGiovanni (World of Darkness), a fictional vampire groupGiovanni (Pokémon), a fictional characterGiovanni de Macque, late Renaissance Franco-Flemish composerAria Giovanni, a model and actress who w..
Giovanni's Room
Giovanni's Room is a novel by James Baldwin first published in 1956. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. The main character, a white American named David, leaves his motherless family for Paris. There, while his girlfriend Hella travels through Spain, he ..
Giovannino Guareschi
Self-portrait Giovannino Guareschi (May 1, 1908 - July 22, 1968) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose most famous creation is the priest Don Camillo. Giovannino Guareschi was born in Fontanelle di Roccabianca, near Parma, Italy, into a middle-class family. In 1926 his fami..
Giovanni & Kim in the Morning
Giovanni & Kim are currently the morning team at WPRO-FM, before forming together about seven years ago, Giovanni did every shift in the book at WPRO-FM, while Kim Zandy came from WNCI's morning show in Ohio. They are on air every weekday morning from 5:30am to 9am with their morning show producer W..
Giovanni (Pokémon)
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. is the leader of Team Rocket in the fictional world of Pokémon, and once was the Viridian City Gym Leader, a..
Giovanni (World of Darkness)
The Giovanni is a fictional clan of vampires, from White Wolf Game Studio's [[Vampire: The Masquerade]] books and role-playing games. Unlike most vampires, the Giovanni are associated with neither the Camarilla nor the Sabbat; much of the Giovanni symbology is Italian, and the organization was found..
Giovanni Agnelli
Giovanni Agnelli (August 13, 1866-December 16, 1945) founded Fiat in 1899. For his grandson, see Gianni Agnelli. External link [Genealogy of his descendants] ..
Giovanni Agnolo Canini
Giovanni Agnolo Canini (1617-1666) was an Italian designer and engraver born at Rome. He was a pupil of Domenichino and afterwards of Antonio Barbalonga. He painted some altar-pieces at Rome, including two admired pictures for the church of San Martino a Monti, representing the martyrdom of St. St..
Giovanni Alberto Ristori
Giovanni Alberto Ristori (born Bologna? 1692 - died Dresden 7 February 1753) was an Italian opera composer and conductor. He was the son of Tommaso Ristori, the leader of an opera troupe belonging to the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony August II the Strong (based in Dresden). August II 'loan..
Giovanni Aldini
Giovanni Aldini Giovanni Aldini (April 10 1762 -- January 17 1834), Italian physicist born at Bologna, was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini (1756-1826) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treatise on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791. He became professor of physic..
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (January 28, 1608 - December 31, 1679) was an Italian physiologist and physicist. Borelli was born at Naples. He was appointed professor of mathematics at Messina in 1649 and at Pisa in 1656. In 1667 he returned to Messina, but in 1674 was ob..
Giovanni Aloi
Giovanni Timeus Aloi is a mexican race car driver who drove for GA for part of the 1990 Formula 3000 season. He came back to his country, Mexico, after. ..
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino
Portrait of Field Marshal Lucio Foppa, c. 1590. Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (1548/51 - October 11, 1608) was an Italian renaissance painter from Milan. An important representative of the Lombard school of painting, he had been taught by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo. Best known as a draftsman, he was al..
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (born 14 December, 1965) is an astrophysicist of the University of Rome La Sapienza who works with gravity. External links ["Are we at the dawn of quantum-gravity phenomenology?" (1999, Slides)] ..
Giovanni Amendola
Giovanni Amendola (April 15 1882, Salerno—April 1 1926, Cannes) was an Italian journalist and politician, noted as an opponent of Fascism. After he graduated philosophy, he collaborated with some newspapers, among them being Il Leonardo of Giovanni Papini and La voce of Giuseppe Prezzolini. A..
Giovanni Anapoli
Giovanni Anapoli is a race car driver born in Montecchio Precalcino, Italy on 23 August 1974. He begun his career in 1994, driving in Italian Formula Europa Boxer, where he would race until 1995 when he moved to Formula Opel Euroseries. He has since driven in the Barber Dodge Pro Series, Formula..
Giovanni Andrea Donducci (Mastelletta)
Giovanni Andrea Donducci also known as Mastelletta (1575-1655), was a Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School (painting). His father was a maker of vats (mastelli). Born in Bologna, he trained in the Carracci Academy degli Incamminati at about the time when Domenichino, Lucio Massari, and p..
Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani
Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani (? – December 26, 1476) was a member of the Milanese nobility and an assassin of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, the Duke of Milan. The Lampugnani family was a high-ranking family in Renaissance Milan, and Giovanni served in several government positions, often working quite ..
Giovanni Andrea Tria
Giovanni Andrea Tria was born in Laterza on 22 July 1676, to Francesco Tria and Margherita Geminale. He completed his studies in Philosophy, Theology, and Civil and Ecclesiastical Law at Naples and Rome. In 1704 he was an "auditor" of ecclesiastical law at the Benedictine Monastery of Cava and he ..
Giovanni and Sebastian
Giovanni & Sebastian are a fictional band created as a culture jamming project by Internet prankster and mashup artist Chris Shaw. Touted as "the biggest selling artists in Albania", the band's frequenly profane, psychedelic music is created by Shaw in an attempt to get the band signed and into the ..
Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli
The sculptor Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli (c. 1507-1563) was an apprentice to the great Italian sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti. ..
Giovanni Animuccia
Giovanni Animuccia (c.1520 – March 20, 1571) was an Italian musical composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the best-known contemporaries of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in the Roman School of composers, and was influential in the development of the polyphonic laude at Rome. Animuccia was..
Giovanni Antonio Amadeo
Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (ca.1447–1522) was an Italian early Renaissance sculptor. He decorated the funerary chapel of the condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni in Bergamo, built shortly after 1470. ..
Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana
Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana (November 6, 1781–January 20, 1864) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician. He was born in Voghera, Italy to Antonio Maria Plana and Giacoboni. At the age of 15 he was sent to live with his uncles in Grenoble to complete his education. In 1800 he entered the..
Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Giovanni Antonio Burrini (1656—1727) was a Bolognese painter. After an apprenticeship with Canuti, he went to work under Lorenzo Pasinelli with fellow student, Gia Gioseffe Dal Sole. He became an early friend and often close collaborator with Giuseppe Maria Crespi, with whom he shared a studio..
Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini
Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini (also Giannantonio) (1386 or 1393 – November 15, 1463 in Altamura) was Prince of Taranto, Duke of Bari, Count of Lecce, Acerra, Soleto and Conversano, as well as Count of Matera from 1433 and of Ugento from 1453. He was son of Raimondo del Balzo Orsini, Pri..
Giovanni Antonio Galignani
Giovanni Antonio Galignani (1752 - 1821) was an Italian newspaper publisher born at Brescia. After living some time in London, he went to Paris, where he started in 1800 an English library, and in 1808 a monthly publication, the Repertory of English Literature. In 1814 he began to publish, in Paris..
Giovanni Antonio Guardi
The Sultan Receives a Delegation, by Gianantonio Guardi. Giovanni Antonio Guardi, also known as Gianantonio Guardi (1699 – january 23, 1760) was an Italian painter. Guardi was one of the founders of the Venetian Academy in 1756. Biography Born at Vienna, he was The son of a minor Baroque ..
Giovanni Antonio Magini
For the crater, see Maginus (crater). Giovanni Antonio Magini (in Latin, Maginus) (June 13, 1555--February 11, 1617) was an Italian astronomer, astrologer, cartographer, and mathematician. He was born in Padua, and completed studies in philosophy in Bologna in 1579. His father was Pasquale Magi..
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (29 April 1675-?2 November 1741) was a widely-travelled Rococo decorative painter from Venice, where he was born and died. He is considered to be one of the most important Venetian painters of the early 18th century, melding the Renaissance style of Paolo Veronese wit..
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (June 3, 1723 – May 8, 1788) was an Italian-Austrian physician and naturalist. Contents 1 Biography2 Works3 Insects named by Scopoli4 External links5 References Biography Scopoli was born at Cavalese in the Val..
Giovanni Arduino
Giovanni Arduino is the name of two people: Giovanni Arduino, present-day Italian author.Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist of the 18th century known as the "father of Italian Geology." redirect [[Template:Disambig]]..
Giovanni Arduino (author)
Giovanni Arduino (Turin, June 30, 1966) is a fiction writer, freelance editor, translator and consultant from Moncalieri, Turin, Italy. His best-selling novels span various genres such as young adult, dark fantasy, modern fables, erotica and pop culture. Arduino's work has been published in Italy..
Giovanni Arduino (geologist)
Giovanni Arduino (Caprino Veronese, October 16, 1714 – Venice, March 21, 1795) was an Italian geologist who is known as the "Father of Italian Geology." Arduino was a mining specialist who developed possibly the first classification of geological time, based on study of the geology of northe..
Giovanni Arnolfini
Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini (c.1400-c.1480) was an Italian merchant from Lucca, a place in Tuscany. Said to be the most powerful man of the Arnolfini family, Giovanni moved to Bruges at an early age and lived there for the rest of his life. He became quite wealthy trading in silk and other fabri..
Giovanni Arrighi
Overview Giovanni Arrighi is Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His main research themes include: Comparative and historical sociologyWorld-systems analysisEconomic sociology. Books "Debating Empire""The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 And 50 Year Perspectives""Chaos and Gove..
Giovanni Artusi
Giovanni Maria Artusi (c. 1540 – August 18, 1613) was an Italian theorist, composer, and writer. Artusi was one of the most famous reactionaries in musical history, fiercely condemning the new style developing around 1600, the innovations of which defined the early Baroque era. He was also ..
Giovanni Audiori Catalog
The Giovanni Audiori Catalog was an underground independent newspaper, named in tribute of the late songwriter Mark Heard whom sometimes used the name Giovanni Audiori. The catalog, which was first published in 1996, was used primarily by record collectors, and independent record labels like Hea..
Giovanni Aurispa
Giovanni Aurispa (c. 1370-1459) was an Italian historian and erudite of the 15th century. He is remembred in particular as a promoter of the revival of the study of Greek in Italy, was born at Noto in Sicily. In 1418 he visited Constantinople, where he remained for some years, perfecting his knowle..
Giovanni Baglione
Giovanni Baglione (1566–1643), was an Italian early baroque painter and historian of art. Biography A pupil of Francesco Morelli, he worked mainly in Rome, initially with a late-Mannerist style. He was notorious for his animosity towards Caravaggio, whose style had influenced him much. Th..
Giovanni Balducci
Giovanni Balducci, called Il Cosci, (ca. 1560—ca. 1631) is an Italian painter. Born in Florence, he was trained by Giovanni Battista Naldini. External links () [Giovanni Balducci] ..
Giovanni Bassano
Giovanni Bassano (c.1558 – summer 1617?) was an Italian Venetian School composer and cornettist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a key figure in the development of the instrumental ensemble at St. Mark's basilica, and left a detailed book on instrumental ornamentation, w..
Giovanni Battaglin
Giovanni Battaglin is an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1981 Giro d'Italia. He also won the 1981 Vuelta a España. |- style="text-align: center;" |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Giovanni Battista
Giovanni Battista, sometimes spelled Giovanni Batista, was a common Italian name in the 16th-18th centuries, which in English means "John the Baptist". A very common nickname for this name was Giambattista, Gianbattista or Giovambattista. The Genoese nickname was Baciccio, and a common shortening wa..
Giovanni Battista Adriani
Giovanni Battista Adriani (1511 or 1513-1579) was an Italian historian. He was born of a patrician family of Florence, and was secretary to the republic of Florence. He was among the defenders of the city during the siege of 1530, but subsequently joined the Medici party and was appointed professor..
Giovanni Battista Amici
Giovanni Battista Amici. Giovanni Battista Amici (March 25, 1786 - April 10 1863) was an Italian astronomer and microscopist. Giovanni Amici was born in Modena, Italy. After studying at Bologna, he became professor of mathematics at Modena, and in 1831 was appointed inspector-general of studi..
Giovanni Battista Beccaria
Giovanni Battista Beccaria (October 3, 1716 – May 27, 1781), Italian physicist, was born at Mondovi, and entered the religious order of the Pious Schools in 1732. He became professor of experimental physics, first at Palermo and then at Rome, and was appointed to a similar situation at Turin ..
Giovanni Battista Belzoni
For the city in Mississippi, see Belzoni, Mississippi. Giovanni Battista Belzoni, from Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia by Giovanni Battista Belzoni,London, 1820. The 'Young Memnon', aka Rameses II, at..
Giovanni Battista Bononcini
Giovanni Battista Bononcini (18 July 1670 - 9 July 1747) was an Italian Baroque composer and cellist, one of a family of musicians. His father, Giovanni Maria Bononcini, was a violinist and composer. Contents 1 Biography2 Operas3 Other works4 External links Biography Bononci..
Giovanni Battista Brocchi
Giovanni Battista Brocchi (or Giambattista) (b. February 18, 1772 in Bassano, Italy; d. September 25, 1826 at Khartum) was an Italian mineralogist and geologist. He studied at the University of Pisa, where his attention was turned to mineralogy and botany. In 1802 he was appointed professor of bota..
Giovanni Battista Bugatti
Giovanni Battista Bugatti (1780–1869) was the official executioner for the Papal States from 1796 to 1865. He was the longest serving executioner in the States and was nicknamed Mastro Titta, a Roman corruption of maestro di giustizia, or master of justice. He referred to his executions as justic..
Giovanni Battista Buonamente
Giovanni Battista Buonamente (about 1595; – 1642), was an Italian composer and violinist in the early Baroque era. Works Il quarto libro de varie de sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, corrente, e brandi per sonar con due violini & un basso di viola" (Venise, 1626)Il sesto libro di sonate et canzoni..
Giovanni Battista Caprara
Giovanni Battista Caprara (May 29th 1733 Bologna - July 27th 1810, Paris) was an Italian statesman and cardinal, legate of Pius VII in France, concluded the Concordat of 1801 [Caprara at the Catholic Encyclopedia] This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The N..
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re
Giovanni Battista Re (born January 30, 1934 in Brescia, Italy) is a priest of the Roman Catholic Church whose service has been primarily limited to the Roman Curia. He was elevated to the rank of archbishop and later honored in consistory by being named a cardinal by Pope John Paul II. Born in Bres..
Giovanni Battista Castello
Giovanni Battista Castello (born 1500 or 1509 near Bergamo; died 1569 or 1579 in Madrid) was an Italian historical painter. He is ordinarily termed Il Bergamasco. He belongs, however, to the school of Genoa, but does not appear to have had any family relationship with the other two painters named C..
Giovanni Battista Casti
Giovanni Battista Casti (29 August 1724 - 5 February 1803) was an Italian poet, satirist, and author of comic opera librettos, born in Montefiascone. He rose to the dignity of canon in the cathedral of his native place, but gave up his chance of church preferment to satisfy his restless spirit by vi..
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (January 22, 1820–October 31, 1897) Legnano was an Italian writer and art critic. Cavalcaselle was born in Legnano, Italy. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Cavalcaselle participated in the Revolution of 1848 and lived in England for several y..
Giovanni Battista Cipriani
Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727–1785), Italian painter and engraver, Pistoiese by descent, was born in Florence. His first lessons were given him by an Englishman, Ignatius Heckford or Hugford, and under his second master, Antonio Domenico Gabbiani, he became a very clever draughtsman. He wa..
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 (current Emilia-Romagna). He had his first musical training with his brother Ignazio (1711–1787), he was also for a time organist at For..
Giovanni Battista Crespi
Giovanni Battista Crespi (1557-1663), called Il Cerano, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect, was born at Cerano in the Milanese. He was a scholar of considerable attainments, and held a position of dignity in his native city. He was head of the Milanese Academy founded by Cardinal Frederigo Bo..
Giovanni Battista de Rossi
Giovanni Battista de Rossi (Rome, February 23, 1822–Castel Gandolfo 20 September 1894) was an Italian archaeologist, famous outside his field for his rediscovery of early Christian catacombs. He applied the sciences of archaeology and epigraphy and his thorough knowledge of the topography o..
Giovanni Battista Dieter
Msgr. Giovanni Battista Dieter, S.M., D.D., Vicar Apostolic of the Navigators' Archipelago, was born in Kleinhausen (Germany) on September 30, 1903. He professed the evangelical counsels on April 17, 1929 for the Society of Mary (Marists). He was subsequently ordained to the presbyterate for the M..
Giovanni Battista di Quadro
Giovanni Battista di Quadro (pol. Jan Baptysta di Quadro, lat. Joannes Baptista Quadro) (died between 10 April 1590 and 16 January 1591) was a Polish-Italian renaissance architect born probably in Cadro near Lugano (today Switzerland), one of the most famous architects in Central Europe in his e..
Giovanni Battista Donati
Giovanni Battista Donati (December 16, Pisa,Italy, 1826 – September 20 1873,Florence, Italy) was an Italian astronomer. Donati graduated at the university in his native city Pisa and afterwards he joined the staff of the Observatory of Florence in 1852 and was appointed director in 1864. Betw..
Giovanni Battista Doni
Giovanni Battista Doni (c. 1593 - 1647) was an Italian musicologist who made an extensive study of ancient music. Life Born Florence, he studied Greek, rhetoric, poetry and philosophy at the Universities of Bologna and Rome. He received the degree of doctor from the University of Pisa and was chose..
Giovanni Battista Draghi
Giovanni Battista Draghi (c 1640 - 1708) was an Italian composer and keyboard player. Draghi was brought to London in the 1660s by King Charles II who was trying, unsuccessfully, to establish Italian opera in England. He remained in England for the rest of his life. In 1673 Draghi was made firs..
Giovanni Battista Ferrandini
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Giovanni Battista Foggini
Giovanni Battista Foggini (april 25, 1652 - april 12, 1737) was an Italian sculptor of the Roman Baroque school. He was born in Florence. He was an apprentice in the studio of Ercole Ferrata. He worked in Capella Corsini (The Mass of San Andrea Corsini) in the Florentine Chiesa del Carmine and Cappe..
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Triumph of Franciscan Order (Roma, Church of the SS. Apostoli). The Worship of the Holy Name of Jesus, with Gianlorenzo Bernini, on the ceiling of the nave of the Church of the Jesus in Rome. Giovanni Battista Gaulli (May 8 1639- April 2 1709), also known as Baciccio, Il Baciccio or Bac..
Giovanni Battista Giraldi
Giovanni Battista Giraldi (November, 1504 - December 30, 1573), surnamed Cynthitus, Cinthio or Cintio, was an Italian novelist and poet. Born at Ferrara, he was educated at the university there, and in 1525 became its professor of natural philosophy. Twelve years afterwards, he succeeded Celio Cal..
Giovanni Battista Grassi
Giovanni Battista Grassi (1854-1925) was an Italian zoologist, known for work demonstrating that mosquitos carry the malaria plasmodium in their digestive tract, on the embryological development of honey bees, on parasites, particularly the vine parasite phylloxera, migrations and metamorphosis in e..
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1711 - September 1786) was an Italian musical instrument maker, one of the greatest luthiers (makers of violins and other string instruments) in history. His violins are often referred to as "poor man's Strads" which alludes to the work of Antonio Stradivari, who is ge..
Giovanni Battista Guarini
Battista Guarini Giovanni Battista Guarini (December 10, 1538 – October 7, 1612) was an Italian poet and diplomat. Life He was born in Ferrara, and spent his early life both in Padua and Ferrara, entering the service of Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, in 1567. After 15 years in th..
Giovanni Battista Hodierna
Giovan Battista Odierna Giovanni Battista Hodierna (Ragusa, 1597 - Palma di Montechiaro, 1660) was an astronomer at the court of the Duke of Montechiaro. He compiled a catalog of some 40 entries, including at least 19 real and verifiable nebulous objects. External links [Hodierna @ SEDS&#..
Giovanni Battista Lacchini
Giovanni Battista Lacchini (May 20, 1884–January 6, 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 della Società astronomica italiana". Bibliography..
Giovanni Battista Landolina
Giovanni Battista Landolina, "Marchese di S. Alfano" was, was a Sicilian landowner and intellectual instrumental in having the city of Noto removed from its former site on Mount Alveria to a more level location following the earthquake centred on the Val di Noto in 1693. He is commemorated by a pia..
Giovanni Battista Locatelli
Giovanni Battista Locatelli (1713-c1770) was an Italian opera director and owner of a private opera company. In 1757 he and his troupe were invited to St. Petersburg. They put on an opera every week for the court, and two to three times a week they were allowed to give open public performances. Th..
Giovanni Battista Martini
Professor Padre Martini. Giovanni Battista Martini (April 24, 1706 - August 4, 1784) was an Italian musician. Biography Giovanni Battista Martini was born at Bologna. His father, Antonio Maria Martini, a violinist, taught him the elements of music and the violin; later he learned singing and..
Giovanni Battista Michelini
Giovanni Battista Michelini of Foligno (1604‑1655) was a 17th century Italian painter of religious and mythological subjects; a pupil of Guido Reni, he worked principally in Foligno and Rome. Known works Hall of Cupid, Hall of Apollo: two frescoed rooms in the Palazzo Pierantoni in FolignoThe..
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Giovanni Battista Morgagni (February 25, 1682 - December 6, 1771), Italian anatomist, was born on at Forlì and he is celebrated as the father of the modern anatomical pathology. Contents 1 Education2 Professional2.1 Early career2.2 Middle career2.3 Late career3 Lega..
Giovanni Battista Moroni
Redirect [[Template:Merge]]Giovanni Battista Moroni (1520 – 1578) was an Italian mannerist painter, son of an architect, Andrea Moroni, born in Albino near Bergamo. The Tailor Moroni was one of the greatest, albeit the shyest, portrait painters of the sixteenth century. He trained unde..
Giovanni Battista Orsenigo
Giovanni Battista Orsenigo- (1837-1904) An 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. He is most known for being in the Guinness Book of Records as the most dedicated de..
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (January 4, 1710 – March 16, 1736) was an Italian composer, violinist and organist. Biography Pergolesi was born in Jesi, where he studied music under Francesco Santini there before going to Naples in 1725 where he studied under G..
Giovanni Battista Pescetti
Giovanni Battista Pescetti (ca. 1704 - 1766) was an organist and composer. Born in Venice in around 1704, he studied under Antonio Lotti for some time. Having spent some time writing operas in and around Venice, he left for London in 1736, becoming director of the Opera Of The Nobility in 1737. A..
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Redirect [[Template:Merge]]Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was a Venetian rococo painter of religious subjects and of often enigmatic genre scenes. Piazzetta was the son of a sculptor, from whom he had early training in wood carving. Starting in 1697 h..
Giovanni Battista Pioda
Giovanni Battista Pioda (October 4, 1808 - November 3, 1882) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1857-1864). He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on July 30, 1857 and resigned on January 26, 1864. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party of Switzer..
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Giovanni Battista (also Giambattista) Piranesi (4th October 1720 in Mogliano Veneto (near Treviso) - 9th November 1778 in Rome) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" {Carceri d'Invenzione). Etching of the Pyramid of Cestius Piranesi ..
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
Giovanni Battista Riccioli (b.April 17 1598, Ferrara, Italy – d. June 25 1671, Bologna, Italy) was an Italian astronomer. He was a Jesuit who entered the order in 1614. He was also the first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a freely falling body. He devoted his career to the stud..
Giovanni Battista Rinuccini
Giovanni Battista Rinuccini (1592-1653) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop in the mid seventeenth century. He was a noted scholar and rose through the ranks of priesthood to become the Archbishop of Fermo in Italy. He is best known for his time as Papal Nuncio to Ireland during the time of conflict kno..
Giovanni Battista Rubini
Giovanni Battista Rubini (born April 7, 1794 in Romano di Lombardia, Bergamo, Italy; died March 3, 1854 in Romano di Lombardia) was an Italian tenor. Rubini began as a violinist at 12 years of age at the Riccardi Theatre in Bergamo. His first appearance as singer was 1814 in Pavia in Le lagrime d'u..
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700 or 1701 – 1775 in Milan) was an Italian composer, organist, choirmaster and teacher. He counted Gluck among his students, and was himself a prolific composer of operas, symphonies (over seventy), concertos and chamber music, which show, the symphonies especi..
Giovanni Battista Sidotti
Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668-1714）was an Italian Jesuit priest. During the Edo period, he entered Japan illegally and was arrested, whereupon he was confined until his death. An important Japanese politician and scholar of the times, Arai Hakuseki published the Seiyō Kibun based on his conve..
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Tiepolo redirects here. You may be looking for either son, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, or Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1760. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770) is an Italian painter, consi..
Giovanni Battista Trevano
Giovanni Battista Trevano was an Italian architect from Lombardy who worked in Poland as royal architect for King Sigismund III Vasa, of the Swedish dynasty of Vasa, who was ruling Poland at the time. He was one of the team of architects and craftsmen who rebuilt the royal Wawel Castle of Warsaw, ..
Giovanni Battista Vaccarini
Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (February 3, 1702 - March 11, 1768) was a Sicilian architect, notable for his work in the Baroque style in his homeland during the period of massive rebuilding following the earthquake of 1693. Many of his principle works can be found in the area in and around Catania. ..
Giovanni Battista Venturi
Giovanni Battista Venturi. Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746 - 1822) was an Italian physicist. He was the discoverer and eponym of Venturi effect. He was also the eponym of the Venturi pump and Venturi tube. He was ordained as a priest in 1769, appointed as a professor of geometry and philosoph..
Giovanni Battista Viotti
Giovanni Battista Viotti (May 12, 1755 - March 3, 1824) was an Italian violinist and composer. Biography Viotti was born in Valzaretto (current province of Vercelli), the part of Kingdom of Sardinia. He was a pupil of Gaetano Pugnani. He served at the court in Turin and toured as a soloist, at fir..
Giovanni Battista Zupi
Giovanni Battista Zupi or Zupus (circa 1590–1650) 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 orbital phases, just like the Moon and Venus. His observations demonstrated..
Giovanni Becatti
Giovanni Becatti (b. Siena, Italy 1912; d. Rome, Italy, 1973) Classical art historian and archaeologist. Becatti was educated at the University of Rome under Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, Becatti was appointed to the Superintendency of Ostia in 1938 at a time when Benito Mussolini sped up excavations..
Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini painted his first female nude when he was about 85 years old. Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430-1516) was a Venetian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law w..
Giovanni Bellori
Giovanni Bellori was an important figure in the seventeenth century Roman art world. His Idea of Beauty, first given in 1664 as a lecture to the Accademia di San Luca, in Rome provides modern art historians with a detailed concept of what was valued (by some) in painting and sculpture in Seicento o..
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
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Giovanni Berlinguer
Giovanni Berlinguer (IPA [berliŋ'gwɛr]) (born Sassari, July 9, 1924), is an Italian politician and Professor of Social Medicine. Son of Mario Berlinguer, he was, like his brother Enrico, a major figure in the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies..
Giovanni Bernardino Nanino
Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (c.1560 – 1623) was an Italian composer, teacher and singing master of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a leading member of the Roman School of composers. He was the younger brother of the somewhat more influential composer Giovanni Maria Nanino. Li..
Giovanni Bianchini
Giovanni Bianchini (in Latin, Johannes Blanchinus) (1410 – c. 1449) was a professor of astronomy at the University of Ferrara. He was an associate of Georg Purbach and Regiomontanus. Copernicus studied under Bianchini in 1503 at Ferrara. Blanchinus crater, on the Moon, is named after him. ..
Giovanni Bisignani
Giovanni Bisignani is the Director General of the International Air Transport Association, appointed in 2002. Bisignani is the former chairman of Italy's flagship airline Alitalia. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School, and has worked as a senior executive at General Electric. Bisignani is t..
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his p..
Giovanni Boldini
Giovanni Boldini (December 31, 1842 – July 11, 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter, belonging to the Parisian school. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting. Boldini was born in Ferrara, the s..
Giovanni Borgia (1474)
For the other Giovanni Borgia, see Giovanni Borgia (1498). Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia Giovanni Borgia', 2nd Duke of Gandia (born Rome 1474- murdered Rome June 14, 1497) was the brother of the famous Cesare Borgia. Giovanni was born in Rome in 1474 to Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza d..
Giovanni Borgia (1498)
For the Giovanni Borgia born in 1474, see Giovanni Borgia (1474). Giovanni Borgia (March 1498 – 1548), the infans Romanus ("child of Rome"), was probably the love-child of Lucrezia Borgia. Pope Alexander VI issued two papal bulls, both dated September 1, 1501, in each of which a different fath..
Giovanni Borgia (disambiguation)
Giovanni Borgia may refer to one of the members of the Borgia family, a Spanish-Italian ruling family that prospered in Renaissance Italy. Giovanni, born in 1474, Duke of Gandia, son Pope Alexander VI.Giovanni, born in 1498, son of Lucrezia Borgia.Juan Borgia, son of Giovanni (1474) and Maria Enriq..
Giovanni Botero
Giovanni Botero (c. 1544-1617) was an Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat, best known for his 1589 work The Reason of State. In this work, he argued against the amoral political philosophy associated with Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, not only because it lacked a Christian foundation, b..
Giovanni Bottesini
Giovanni Bottesini Giovanni Bottesini (December 22, 1821 - July 7, 1889) was an Italian composer of classical music and a virtuoso of the double bass. Contents 1 Biography2 Partial list of works3 The Paganini of the double bass4 References5 External links Biograph..
Giovanni Branca
Giovanni Branca (1571-1645) was an italian engineer and architect from Loretto who, in 1629, designed a steam turbine, which he didn't build. He suggested using steam to blow a windmill-like device for power, as modern steam turbines do. (It's unclear whether he died in 1640 or 1645) ..
Giovanni Brunero
Gioanni Giuseppe Brunero (March 15, 1898 - November 23, 1934) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. He is considered one of the best Italian cyclists of all times. Biography Giovanni Brunero was born at San Maurizio Canavese. He became a professional cycling racer in 1920, soon obtainin..
Giovanni Brusca
Giovanni Brusca (born 1957 in San Giuseppe Jato) is a former member of the Sicilian Mafia. He once stated that he had committed at least a hundred murders, but was honestly unable to remember the exact number. Brusca was a member of the Corleonesi Mafia Family, from the town of Corleone and his m..
Giovanni Buonaventura Genelli
Giovanni Buonaventura Genelli (1798-1868) was a German painter born at Berlin on the 28th of September 1798. He was the son of Janus Genelli, a painter whose landscapes are still preserved in the Schloss at Berlin, and grandson to Joseph Genelli, a Roman embroiderer employed to found a school of gob..
Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani
Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (1638–about 1693) was an Italian composer and violinist, born in Florence. Compositions include: 2 sonatas for trumpet and organ2 sonatas for solo trumpetSonatas for violin and continuoOpera: AstiageCapriccios External links [Free sheet music Triosonatas op...
Giovanni Canestri
Cardinal Giovanni Canestri, Archbishop emeritus of Genoa, was born on 30 September 1918 in Castelspina, diocese of Alessandria (Italy). He was ordained priest on April 12 1941 and began his pastoral ministry in Rome. In August 1959 he was nominated spiritual director of the Pontifical Major Roman S..
Giovanni Capurro
Giovanni Capurro (February 5, 1859 – January 18, 1920) was an Italian poet, born in Naples, Italy, Together with singer Eduardo di Capua, Capurro wrote the song "O sole mio". Capurro died in Mexico City in 1920. ..
Giovanni Cardinal Benelli
Giovanni Cardinal Benelli (May 12, 1921-October 26, 1982) was an Italian cardinal, one of many cardinals believed to be among the papabili, those considered especially electable to the Pontificate, at the two Papal conclaves of 1978. Contents 1 Biography2 Episcopate3 Cardinalate4&n..
Giovanni Cardinal Urbani
Giovanni Cardinal Urbani (26 March1900 - 17 September1969) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the Patriarch of Venice from 1958 until his death. Born in Venice, Italy in 1900, Urbani was ordained a priest in 1922 and ordained an auxiliary bishop of Venice in 1946. Urbani was ..
Giovanni Carestini
Giovanni Carestini (circa 1705 — circa 1759) was an Italian castrato opera singer. Carestini had a two-octave mezzo-soprano range and was described by one contemporary as "tall, beautiful and majestic" (Riding 2006). Rumors that Carestini rejected the score of Alcina led Georg Frideric Handel to..
Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari
Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari (?1677-?1754), Italian musical composer, kapellmeister (chapel-master) at Pistoia, was born at Pisa about the year 1677. He gained his initial grounding in musical education from his father, a violinist originally from Rome who was employed in the service of the chapel of ..
Giovanni Carrara
Giovanni Carrara [car-RAH-ra] (born March 4, 1968 in Anzoátegui State, Venezuela) is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who currently plays with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Carrara bats and throws right handed. He has established himself as a valuable middle relief man. Failed start..
Giovanni Cesari
Giovanni Cesari, soprano acuto in 1898 Giovanni Cesari (Born Frosinone, 25 June 1843 - Died Rome, 10 March 1904) was an Italian singer with a soprano acuto, or high soprano voice. Together with Alessandro Moreschi, Domenico Salvatori and Domenico Mustafa, Cesari was a famous castrato singer ..
Giovanni Ceva
Giovanni Ceva, pronounced "Chevva" (December 7, 1648–June 15, 1734) is an Italian mathematician widely known for proving Ceva's theorem in elementary geometry. His brother, Tommaso Ceva was also a well known poet and mathematician. Giovanni Ceva rediscovered and published Menelaus' theorem, ..
Giovanni Ciccotti
Giovanni Ciccotti (b. 1943 in Rome Italy) is an Italian physicist. Ciccotti holds the position of Professor of the Structure of Matter at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He's the author of more than a hundred articles on molecular dynamics and statistical mechanics. He worked with J.P. Ryckaert..
Giovanni Cima
Giovanni Cima could refer to: Giovanni Paolo Cima - composer and organistCima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima) - painter ..
Giovanni Colonna
Giovanni Colonna (born 1934) is a contemporary Italian scholar of ancient Italy and, in particular, the Etruscan civilization. Colonna is a professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" where he has taught since 1980. He took his first degree at Rome in 1957, studying under Massimo Pallottino...
Giovanni Comisso
Giovanni Comisso (October 3,1895 - 1969) was an Italian writer. Born in Treviso, he was an important figure of the Italian literature of the first half of the 20th century. He wrote novels, stories, reportages (for the "Corriere della Sera" and "Gazzetta del Popolo"). During his years after the r..
Giovanni Contarini
Giovanni Contarini was an Italian painter of the Venetian School, born at Venice about 1549; died in 1605. Contarini was a contemporary of Jacopo Palma called Palma Giovine. He was a great student of the works of Tintoretto and Titian and is declared to have been an exact imitator of Titian. Accor..
Giovanni Costa
Giovanni Costa (1826-1903), Italian painter, was born in Rome. He fought under Garibaldi in 1848, and served as a volunteer in the war of 1859; and his enthusiasm for Italian unity was actively shown again in 1870, when he was the first to mount the breach in the assault of Rome near the Porta Pia...
Giovanni Croce
Contents 1 Life2 Music and influence3 Media4 References and further reading5 External link Giovanni Croce (also Ioanne a Cruce Clodiensis) (1557 – May 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, of the Venetian School. He was particularly promine..
Giovanni d'Andrea
Giovanni d'Andrea or Johannes Andreæ, (ca 1270-1275 – 1348), a Tuscan expert in canon law, was the most renowned and successful canonist of the later Middle Ages. His contemporaries referred to him as iuris canonici fons et tuba ("the fount and trumpet of canon law"). Most important among hi..
Giovanni D'Anzi
Giovanni D'Anzi (Milan, Italy, 1 January 1906, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, 15 April 1974) was an Italian songwriter. In 1935 he wrote music and lyrics of O mia bela Madonina ("My beautiful little Madonna"), a song dedicated to his hometown which soon became very popular and a sort of unofficia..
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere
Giovanni de' Medici, aka Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1498 - 1526), now known as the last of the great condottieri, was born in the Northern Italian town of Forlì to Giovanni de' Medici (aka il Popolano) and Caterina Sforza, one of the most famous women of the Italian Renaissance. From an early ag..
Giovanni Dall’Agocchie
Giovanni Dall’Agocchie was an Italian fencer and author who published his text in 1572. ..
Giovanni da Capistrano
Saint Giovanni da Capestrano (in English, John Capistrano, June 24, 1386 – October 23,1456), Italian friar, theologian and inquisitor, was born in the village of Capestrano, in the diocese of Sulmona in the Abruzzi. His father had come to Italy with the Angevin court of Louis I of Anjou, Ki..
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, or John of Plano Carpini or Joannes de Plano (c. 1180-1252) was one of the first Europeans to enter the court of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire and the author of the earliest important Western work on northern and central Asia, Rus, and other regions of the Tatar d..
Giovanni da Udine
Giovanni Nanni, also Giovanni de' Ricamatori, better known as Giovanni da Udine (1487-1564), was an Italian painter and architect born in Udine. A student and assistant of Raphael, he was responsible for most of the "decorative" (i.e. non-narrative) elements of the major Raphaellesque projects in R..
Giovanni da Vercelli
Giovanni da Vercelli, master general of the Order of Preachers born in Mosso S. Maria from the family Garbella and died 30 november 1283 in Montpellier. He studied in Paris and learn canonic law in Paris, Pavia and Vercelli. On 1254 Prior of Bologna, between 1257-1264 provincial of Lombardy. In 126..
Giovanni da Verrazano
Giovanni da Verrazzano (c. 1485 – c.1528). Giovanni da Verrazzano or Verrazano (c. 1485 – c.1528) was an Italian explorer of North America. Verrazzano sailed for France and is renowned as the European discoverer of many features of the Atlantic coast of the United States and Canad..
Giovanni de' Bardi
Giovanni de Bardi (February 5, 1534 – September 1612), Count of Vernio, was an Italian literary critic, writer, composer and soldier. Biography He was born in Florence. While he received a deep classical education, becoming proficient in Latin and Greek as well as learning the craft of mus..
Giovanni de' Marignolli
Giovanni de' Marignolli, a notable traveller to the Far East in the 14th century, born probably before 1290, and sprung from a noble family in Florence. The family is long extinct, but a street near the cathedral (Via de' Cerretani) formerly bore the name of the Marignolli. In 1338 there arrived at..
Giovanni de' Medici
There were many Medici known as Giovanni de' Medici: Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (1360-1429) (founder of the Medici dynasty)Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici (1421-1463) (second son of Cosimo the Elder)Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici (1475-1521) (Pope Leo X)Giovanni de' Medici il Popolano, husband of C..
Giovanni della Casa
Giovanni della Casa (28 June 1503 - 14 November 1556) was an Italian poet. He was born in the Mugello district, in Tuscany. He studied at Bologna, Florence and Rome, and by his learning attracted the patronage of Alexander Farnese, who, as Pope Paul III, made him nuncio to Florence, where he receiv..
Giovanni De Benedictis
Giovanni De Benedictis (born January 8, 1968 in Pescara) is a Italian race walker. Achievements Year Tournament Venue Result Event 1989 European Indoor Championships The Hague, Netherlands 3rd 5000 m 1990 European Indoor Championships Glasgow, Scotland 2nd 5000 m 1991 World Indoor Championsh..
Giovanni de Macque
Giovanni de Macque (Jean de Macque) (?1548-1550 – September 1614) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, who spent almost his entire life in Italy. He was one of the most famous Neapolitan composers of the late 16th century; some of his experimentation with c..
Giovanni de Riu
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Giovanni de Sanctis
Giovanni de Sanctis is an Italian astronomer at the Astronomical Observatory of Turin in Turin, Italy. His name is sometimes spelt DeSanctis, particularly in the Minor Planet Circulars. Asteroids Discovered Name ProvisionalDesignation Discovery Date Discoverer 2461 Clavel 1981 EC1 Mar..
Giovanni Diodati
Giovanni Diodati (June 6, 1576 - October 3, 1649), Swiss Protestant divine, was born at Geneva, of a noble family originally belonging to Lucca, which had been expatriated on account of Giovanni's translations of the Bible. At the age of twenty-one he was nominated professor of Hebrew at Geneva on ..
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (1360 (Florence) – February 20 or February 28, 1429) was the founder of the famous and powerful Medici dynasty of Florence; father of Cosimo de' Medici (Pater Patriae), and great-grandfather of Lorenzo de Medici (the Magnificent). He was himself the son of Averardo..
Giovanni di Giovanni
Giovanni di Giovanni (ca. 1350 – May 7, 1365?) is one of the younger victims of the campaign against sodomy, waged in Florence since the Middle Ages against the majority male population of the city. He was convicted by the Podestà court of being the passive partner of a number of different men...
Giovanni di Matera
Saint John of Matera or Mathera (also John of Pulsano, Italian Giovanni di Matera) was an austere Benedictine monk. He was born at Matera and lived at Monte Vergine under William of Vercelli. He made many enemies by his upright life and was eventually imprisoned. He was rescued from prison by Grim..
Giovanni di Monte Corvino
Giovanni di Monte Corvino (ca. 1247-1328), Franciscan missionary, traveller and statesman, was founder of the earliest Roman Catholic missions in India and China, and archbishop of Peking. In 1272 he was commissioned by the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos to Pope Gregory X to negotiate..
Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti
Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti was an Italian painter. As a member of the Venetian school, he was active in Venice from 1485 to 1526. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [media] ..
Giovanni Di Paolo
Giovanni Di Paolo (1403-1482), was one of the most important painters of the 15th century Sienese school. His early works show the influence of earlier Sienese masters, but his later style was more individual, characterized by cold, harsh colours and elongated forms. Many of his works have an unusua..
Giovanni di Paolo
Giovanni di Paolo is an Italian painter of the Sienese School 1395-1482. He may have apprenticed with Taddeo di Bartolo. Prolific painter and illustrator of manuscripts including Dante's texts. ..
Giovanni di Stefano
Giovanni di Stefano (b. 1955) is an Italian-born lawyer working in the United Kingdom. As an avvocato, he has made a reputation advising the defence in high-profile cases in British and international courts. Born in Campobasso, in rural southern Italy, he moved to Irchester in Northamptonshire in 1..
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (June 8, 1625–September 14, 1712) was an Italian astronomer, engineer, and astrologer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, Imperia, at that time in the Republic of Genoa. Contents 1 Astronomy and astrology2 Engineering3 Named after Cassini4 Ext..
Giovanni Domenico Mansi
Gian (Giovanni) Domenico Mansi (16 February1692–27 September1769) was an Italian theologian, scholar and historian, known for his massive works on the Church councils. He born at Lucca, of a patrician family, 16 February, 1692; and died archbishop of that city. At the age of sixteen he entere..
Giovanni Domenico Nardo
Giovanni Domenico Nardo (1802-77) was an Italian naturalist from Chioggia. ..
Giovanni Domenico Perotti
Giovanni Domenico Perotti (January 20, 1761 - March 24, 1825) was an Italian composer. ..
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
250px 250px Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (august 30, 1727 - March 3, 1804) was a painter, son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo. Contents 1 Life history2 Works3 See also4 External links Life history Domenico was bor..
Giovanni dos Santos
Giovanni dos Santos Ramírez (born May 11, 1989 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico) is a Mexican football midfielder who plays for FC Barcelona B and was part of the under-17 Mexican football team that won the FIFA U-17 World Championship 2005 held in Peru. He assisted in the first goal in the cha..
Giovanni Dragoni
Giovanni Andrea Dragoni (c.1540 – December 1598) was an Italian composer of the Roman School of the late Renaissance, a student of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and a prominent composer and maestro di cappella in Rome in the late 16th century. He left numerous sacred and secular works, almost..
Giovanni Evangelisti
Giovanni Evangelisti (born September 11, 1961 in Rimini) is a retired long jumper from Italy. His greatest achievements was the Olympic bronze medal in 1984 as well as three World Indoor bronze medals. He finished fourth at the 1988 Olympics. His personal best jump was 8.43 metres, achieved in San..
Giovanni Falcone
Giovanni Falcone. Aerial view of the ambush site. Sheets exposed in solidarity with Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. They read: "You did not kill them: their ideas walk on our legs". Giovanni Falcone, (May 18, 1939, Palermo – May 23, 1992, Capaci), was an Italian magistrate..
Giovanni Fattori
Giovanni Fattori was a Florentine artist born in Livorno Sept. 6, 1825, he died in Firenze in Aug. 30, 1908. Little is known of his early life other than he was born into poverty. He moved to Firenze in 1846 and studied under Giuseppe Bezzuoli. Few examples of his early work, all sketches, su..
Giovanni Ferrari
Giovanni Ferrari (December 6, 1907, Alessandria – December 2, 1982) was an Italian football (soccer) player. He played 125 times for Internazionale and scored 35 goals for the club. He also managed Inter from 1942 to 1943. Along with Ciro Ferrara, Virgilio Rosetta and Giuseppe Furino, he is o..
Giovanni Filippo
Giovanni Filippo (1510-1580) is believed to be first to describe Varicella, commonly known as chicken pox. He is also a major figure in the history of the science of human anatomy. ..
Giovanni Filippo Ingrassias
Giovanni Filippo Ingrassias (1510-1580) was a major figure in the history of the science of human anatomy. Ingrassias was a learned Sicilian physician, who, in a skilful commentary on the osteology of Galen, corrected numerous mistakes. He gave the first distinct account of the true configuration ..
Giovanni Filoteo Achillini
Giovanni Filoteo Achillini (1466—1538) was an Italian philosopher. The younger brother of philosopher Alessandro, he applied himself to Greek, Latin, theology, philosophy, music, antiquities, jurisprudence, poetry, etc., but did not excel in any specific field Rose, Hugh James [1853&#..
Giovanni Florio
Giovanni Florio, 1611 Giovanni Florio (b. London 1553; d. Fulham, near London, 1625), also known as John Florio, was an English lexicographer and translator of Montaigne. He was of Tuscan origin, his parents being Waldenses who had fled from persecution in the Valtelline and taken refuge in ..
Giovanni Francesco Abela
Giovanni Francesco Abela (1582-1655) was a Maltese of noble birth who in the early 17th century wrote an important work on Malta, Malta illustrata con le sue Antichità ed altre Notizie (Malta illustrated, with its Antiquities, and other information). He is buried in the Chapel of Our Lady of Filerm..
Giovanni Francesco Anerio
Giovanni Francesco Anerio (c.1567–buried June 12, 1630) was an Italian composer of the Roman School, of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was the younger brother of Felice Anerio. Giovanni's principal importance in music history was his contribution to the early developmen..
Giovanni Francesco Barbarigo
Giovanni Francesco Barbarigo; (* 1658 at Venice; + in 1730); Italian Cardinal, nephew of Blessed Gregorio Barbarigo (1625-97), External links http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02285a.htm ..
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri
'Et in Arcadia ego' Guercino, 1618-1622 oil on canvas, 82 × 91 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome ''' Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 — December 9, 1666), best known as Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter Biography Guercino was born at Cento, a village betwee..
Giovanni Francesco Busenello
Giovanni Francesco Busenello (1598–1659) was an Italian librettist. He is most noted for writing the opera L'Incoronazione di Poppea ("The Coronation of Poppea") ..
Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto (1480-1555) was a Veronese painter of the Renaissance. He was born in Verona, studied there under Liberale, and later in Mantua under Mantegna, who strongly influenced him. Other influences in his paintings are Bonsignori, Leonardo, Raphael, and Giulio Romano; but he ..
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606 - November 28, 1680), Italian architect and painter, named Il Bolognese from the place of his birth, was a relative of the Caracci family, under whom it is presumed he studied first. He was afterwards a pupil of Albani. He went to Rome, and was appointed architect ..
Giovanni Francesco Grossi
Giovanni Francesco Grossi (? - 1699), one of the greatest Italian singers of the age of bel canto, better known as Siface, was born at Pescia in Tuscany about the middle of the 17th century. He entered the papal chapel in 1675, and later sang at Venice. He derived his nickname of Siface from his im..
Giovanni Francesco Straparola
Giovanni Francesco (or Gianfrancesco) Straparola (c. 1480 - c. 1557) was an Italian writer and fairy tale collector. Straparola's main work is two-volume collection La piacevoli notti (published in English as The Nights of Straparola), with 75 stories. It was modelled on Decamerone; in it, particip..
Giovanni Francesco Susini
Giovanni Francesco (Gianfrancesco) Susini (Florence c 1585The Grove Dictionary of Art gives a date 17 August Florence – after 17 October 1653) was a Florentine sculptor in bronze and marble, trained in the workshop of Giambologna, in whose manner he continued to work, to the extent that Susin..
Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli Giovanni Gabrieli (1554–1557? – August 12, 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baro..
Giovanni Galbaio
Giovanni Galbaio was the eight Doge of Venice (787–804) according to tradition, but only the sixth historically verifiable one. He succeeded his father Maurizio Galbaio, who had associated him as doge in 778. The Byzantine emperor Leo IV the Khazar recognised his title in that year, though the..
Giovanni Galli
For the italian Formula One driver, see Giovanni Galli. Giovanni Galli (born 29 April 1958 in Pisa) is an Italian former football (soccer) goalkeeper. Galli started his playing career for AC Fiorentina, where he played from 1977 to 1986. He then moved to AC Milan, where he played four seasons, ..
Giovanni Galli (disambiguation)
Giovanni Galli may refer to: Giovanni Galli, former Italian goalkeeperGiovanni Galli, former F1 and sports-car Italian racer This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link..
Giovanni Garbin
Giovanni Garbin (born in Istria), is a spiritual researcher, healer, doctor, and disciple of Djwhal Khul. His studies include Ayurveda and Tibetan medicine over a period of more than 30 years. He is a member of the United Kingdom-based National Federation of Spiritual Healers. Giovanni lives and wor..
Giovanni Gentile
Giovanni Gentile (IPA:[dʒovɑnˌni dʒentiˌle]) (May 30, 1875 - April 15, 1944) was an Italian neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher, a peer of Benedetto Croce. He described himself as a 'the philosopher of Fascism', and ghostwrote A Doctrine of Fascism (1932) for Benito Mussolini. He also ..
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (active 1582 - 1609), was an Italian Baroque composer. External links Free scores by [[choralwiki:|]] in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)*Free scores by [Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi] in the Werner Icking Music Archive ..
Giovanni Giacomo Pandolfi
Giovanni Giacomo Pandolfi (1567-1636), var. Gian or Giovan, was an Italian painter, who was born and lived in Pesaro. He studied with Federigo Zuccaro (1540-1609) and his brother, but was strongly influenced by another artist, Federico Barocci (1526-1612). His best known work adorns the ceiling a..
Giovanni Giolitti
This article is about the statesman. For the cáfe and ice cream parlour, see Giolitti Giovanni Giolitti (October 27, 1842–July 17, 1928) was an Italian statesman. He was Prime Minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. Biography Giolitti was born at Mondovì (Piedmont). After a rap..
Giovanni Giorgi
Giovanni Giorgi (27 November 1871 - 19 August 1950) was an electrical engineer who invented the Giorgi system of measurement, the precursor to the International System (SI). Giorgi was born in Lucca and studied engineering at the Institute of Technology of Rome, and was the director of the Technolo..
Giovanni Giraud
Count Giovanni Giraud (1776-1834), Italian dramatist, of French origin, was born at Rome, and showed a precocious passion for the theatre. His first play, L'Honestà non si vince, was successfully produced in 1798. He took part in politics as an active supporter of Pope Pius VI, but was mainly occup..
Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri
Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (September 5, 1667 - October 25, 1733) was an Italian Jesuit priest and mathematician. Saccheri entered the Jesuit order in 1685, and was ordained as a priest in 1694. He taught philosophy at Turin from 1694 to 1697, and philosophy, theology, and mathematics at Pavia from..
Giovanni Giuriati
Giovanni Giuriati (August 4 1876, Venice—May 6 1970, Rome) was an Italian Fascist politician. A law graduate and lawyer, he associated in 1903 with the irredentist group Trento e Trieste ("Trento and Trieste" - regions which it aimed to have secede from Austria-Hungary), and soon became its p..
Giovanni Giustiniani
Giovanni Giustiniani was a Genoese captain during the Middle Ages. He was reputed to be one of the bravest and most effective soldiers of his day. He led 700 men to the defense of Constantinople against the Ottoman army of Sultan Mehmed II in 1453 (See also, Fall of Constantinople). Giustiniani was ..
Giovanni Goria
Giovanni Giuseppe Goria (July 30 1943 - May 21 1994) was an Italian politician. He served as Prime Minister from 1987 until 1988. Biography Goria was born in Asti (Piedmont). Goria joined the Democrazia Cristiana in 1960 and entered local politics. He was elected to the chamber of deputies in 197..
Giovanni Gronchi
Giovanni Gronchi (September 10, 1887–October 17, 1978) was an Italian politician who became the second President of the Italian Republic in 1955, after Luigi Einaudi. His presidency lasted until 1962 and was marked by a controversial and failed attempt to bring about an “opening to the left” ..
Giovanni Guidiccioni
Giovanni Guidiccioni (1480-1541), Italian poet, was born at Lucca, and died at Macerata. He occupied a high position, being bishop of Fossombrone and president of Romagna. The latter office nearly cost him his life; a murderer attempted to kill him, and had already touched his breast with his dagge..
Giovanni Hidalgo
Giovanni Hidalgo (born March 9, 1963, in San Juan, Puerto Rico) - percussionist. Giovanni Hidalgo Giovanni received his primary education in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico. His father and grandfather had been musicians and he was raised in a household surrounded by drums, bongos, congas..
Giovanni II Bentivoglio
Giovanni II Bentivoglio (February 12, 1443 - February 15, 1508) was an Italian nobleman who ruled as tyrant of Bologna from 1463 until 1506. He had no formal position, but held power as the city's "first citizen." The Bentivoglio family ruled over Bologna from 1443, and repeatedly attempted to ..
Giovanni Inghirami
Giovanni Inghirami (April 16, 1779 — August 15, 1851) was an Italian astronomer. There is a valley on the moon named after him. Life His family produced two other distinguished scholars, Tommaso (1470-1516) (a humanist scholar), and Francesco (1772-1846), (an archaeologist), brother of Giovanni. ..
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio (c. 1500-1565) known also as Jacobus Parmensis and Jacobus Veronensis was an eminent Italian engraver, born at Verona. A pupil of Raimondi, he engraved on gems and medals as well as copperplate, after the works of Raphael, Titian, Michelangelo, and other the great masters. ..
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio (born 1932), sometimes called Gianni Jona, is an influent Italian theoretical physicist, best known for his works about quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. He has been a pioneer in research concerning spontaneous symmetry breaking, and the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio m..
Giovanni Lajolo
Giovanni Lajolo (born January 3, 1935 in Novara, Italy) has been the Secretary for Relations with States in the Secretariat of State, or foreign minister of Vatican City, since October 7, 2003. On October 3, 1988, he was appointed Secretary of Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See by..
Giovanni Lanfranco
Giovanni Lanfranco (26 January 1582 - 30 November 1647) was an Italian Baroque painter. Biography Lanfranco was born in Parma. He began his career as an apprentice to the Bolognese Agostino Carracci and his school of painting, and formed part of team that decorated the ceiling (1605) of the Casi..
Giovanni Lanza
Domenico Giovanni Giuseppe Maria Lanza (February 15, 1810 - March 9, 1882), Italian politician, was born in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont. He studied medicine at Turin, and practised for some years in his native place. He was one of the promoters of the agrarian association in Turin, and took an act..
Giovanni Lapentti
Giovanni Lapentti (born January 25, 1983) is a tennis player from Guayaquil, Ecuador. His brother is Nicolas Lapentti, another professional tennis player. Lapentti announced his ATP debut in 2002, but he actually had his first tour game in 2003, at the Franklin Templeton Classic in Scottsdale, Ariz..
Giovanni Lavaggi
Giovanni Lavaggi was a Formula One driver from Italy. A nobleman by background, he raised the money to buy 10 grand prix drives, for Pacific and Minardi, debuting on July 30, 1995. He scored 0 championship points and was never close to the car's performance limits, and was described as "desperate..
Giovanni Legrenzi
Giovanni Legrenzi (baptized August 12, 1626 – May 27, 1690) was an Italian composer and organist of the Baroque era. He was one of the most prominent composers in Venice in the late 17th century, and extremely influential on the development of late Baroque idioms across northern Italy. Life ..
Giovanni Leone
Giovanni Leone (November 3, 1908 - November 9, 2001) was an Italian politician. he was Prime Minister of Italy from June 21 1963 to November 5 1963 and again from June 24 1968 to November 19 1968. He also served as President of the Republic from 1971 to 1978. Biography Leone was born in Naples. H..
Giovanni Lindo Ferretti
Giovanni Lindo Ferretti (born September 9, 1953) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer and author. Born in the province of Reggio Emilia, he led the famous punk band CCCP (with Massimo Zamboni) around the 1980s and CSI and PGR later. PGR are still active now. ..
Giovanni Lombardi
Giovanni Lombardi (born 20 July, 1969) is an Italian professional road bicycling racer. He started his career as a sprinter, winning multiple stages in the Giro d'Italia. He went on to ride as an important helper for the top sprinter names of Erik Zabel and Mario Cipollini. He currently rides for T..
Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Giovanni Lombardo Radice (born 23 September 1954) is an Italian film actor, better know to audiences as John Morghen. Born in Rome, Lombardo Radice is mostly famous the gruesome death scenes his characters fall victim to in films such as Cannibal Ferox. Selected filmography The Omen (2006)Deliria (..
Giovanni Lonfernini
Giovanni Lonfernini is the name of two Captains-Regent of San Marino: Giovanni Lonfernini (I) in 1934, 1937, 1941Giovanni Lonfernini (II) in 2003 ..
Giovanni Lonfernini (II)
Giovanni Lonfernini (born 1976) was captain regent of San Marino for the semester from October 2003 to March 2004. He is of the San Marinese Christian Democratic Party, and his co-captain-regent was Valeria Ciavatta. External links [Speech by G. Lonfernini] ..
Giovanni Luigi Fieschi
Giovanni Luigi Fieschi (or Fiesco) (c. 1522 - January 2, 1547, Genoa) was a Genoese nobleman, count of Lavagna. Biography He descended from one of the greatest families of Liguria, first mentioned in the 10th century. Among his ancestors were two popes (Innocent IV and Adrian V), many cardinals, a..
Giovanni Malatesta
Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Giovanni Malatesta (died 1304), known, from his lameness, as Gianciotto, or Giovanni, lo Sciancato, was the eldest son of Malatesta da Verucchio of Rimini. From 1275 onwards he played an active part in the Romagnole War..
Giovanni Maria Angioy
Born in 1751, he died 1808. He was a professor, a banker, entrepreneur, and Judge. He was a judge in the trials of The Sardianian Revolution. ..
Giovanni Maria Benzoni
Giovanni Maria Benzoni (1809–1873) was an Italian neoclassical sculptor. Sculpture by Benzoni of the Veiled Rebecca, can be found in the Salar Jung Museum, (Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India), High Museum of Art (Atlanta, Georgia) and the Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, Massachusetts). External lin..
Giovanni Maria Bononcini
Giovanni Maria Bononcini (1642 - 1678) was an Italian violinist composer, the father of a musical dynasty. In 1671 Bononcini the elder became a court musician at Modena. His treatise, Musico prattico, was published in 1673. The composers Giovanni Battista Bononcini and Antonio Maria Bononcini wer..
Giovanni Maria Falconetto
Giovanni Maria Falconetto ( c. 1468 – 1535) was an Italian architect and artist. He designed the first fully Renaissance building in Padua, the Loggia Cornaro, a garden loggia for Alvise Cornaro built as a Roman doric arcade. He was among the most prominent painters of Verona and Padua in th..
Giovanni Maria Flick
Giovanni Maria Flick (born November 7, 1940) is an Italian, journalist, politician, and jurist. Career Flick was born in Ciriè, Piedmont, to a Roman Catholic family, half-Ethnic German family, as the fifth of seven children. He began his education at the Jesuit liceo, and gained a diploma in jur..
Giovanni Maria Francesco Rondani
Giovanni Maria Francesco Rondani (c. 1490 - 1550) was an Italian painter of the Parmesan school of Painting. He was a near contemporary of Michelangelo Anselmi, and is known to have worked on designs of Antonio da Correggio for the frescoes of San Giovanni Evangelista (1522), in Parma. He also pain..
Giovanni Maria Nanino
Giovanni Maria Nanino Giovanni Maria Nanino (also Nanini) (1543 or 1544 – March 11, 1607) was an Italian composer and teacher of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the Roman School of composers, and was the most influential music teacher in Rome in the late 16th century. He was the..
Giovanni Maria Trabaci
Giovanni Maria Trabaci (c. 1575 – December 31, 1647) was an Italian composer and organist in the Early Baroque era. Born in in Montepeloso, near Potenza, Trabaci served as organist of the Oratorio dei Filippini in Naples, organist of the royal chapel there and then as its maestro di cappella..
Giovanni Marinelli
Giovanni Marinelli (October 18 1879, Andria—January 11 1944, Verona) was an Italian Fascist political leader. A wealthy man, Marinelli contributed to Fascist success by financing the March on Rome. Secretary of the National Fascist Party (PNF), he created the Ceka, a secret police establishe..
Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni
Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni (1663-1728) was an Italian critic and poet. Biography Crescimbeni was born at Macerata, then part of the Papal States. Having been educated by a French priest at Rome, he entered the Jesuits' college of his native town, where he produced a tragedy on the story of Darius,..
Giovanni Marradi
Giovanni Marradi (1852-1922) was an Italian poet born at Leghorn and educated at Pisa and Florence. At the latter place he started with others a short-lived review, the Nuovi Goliardi, which made some literary sensation. He became a teacher at various colleges, and eventually an educational inspecto..
Giovanni Martinelli
Giovanni Martinelli (born Montagnana 22 October, 1885 - died New York, 2 February, 1969) was an Italian operatic tenor. Martinelli studied in Milan where he made his debut in Ernani in 1910. Engagements followed in London, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. The Metropolitan in New York eventual..
Giovanni Messe
--> Giovanni Messe (December 10, 1883 - December 19, 1968) was an Italian soldier, politician and quite possibly the most distinguished Italian Field Marshal. Early life and career Born on December 10, 1883 near the city of Brindisi, Giovanni Messe pursued a military career in 1901. He saw action..
Giovanni Micheletto
Giovanni Micheletto (born in Sacile, Pordenone, January 21, 1889 — dead September 29, 1958) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist, nicknamed by fans "The Sacile Count" and "Nanè". The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1912 Giro d'Italia. He was also the first italian..
Giovanni Michelotti
Giovanni Michelotti (1921-1980) was one of the most prolific designers of sports cars in the 20th century. Born in Turin, Italy, Michelotti worked for a number of design houses and owned his own design studio in Italy. He influenced numerous car designs, including a number of Triumphs, the Maserati..
Giovanni Modanese
Giovanni Modanese is a professor at the University of Bolzano, Italy. He collaborated with Eugene Podkletnov, devising a device that reportedly generates a "repulsive" gravity beam that is several orders of magnitude stronger than the aforementioned experiments. This work has not been accepted by ..
Giovanni Morelli
Giovanni Morelli (1816 - 1891) was an Italian art critic and political figure. His pseudonym was Ivan Lermoliev. ..
Giovanni Morone
Giovanni Morone or Moroni (25 January 1509 - 1 December 1580) was an Italian cardinal. He was named Bishop of Modena in 1529 and was created Cardinal Morone in 1536 by Pope Paul III. As a cardinal, he resided in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace and was consulted by Saint Ignatius, founder of the Jes..
Giovanni Muzzioli
Giovanni Muzzioli (February 10,1854-August 5, 1894) was an Italian painter. Muzzioli was born in Modena after his family had moved from Castelvetro. From the time that he began to attend the local academy at the age of thirteen he was recognized as a prodigy, and four years later, by the unanimous..
Giovanni Nicotera
Giovanni Nicotera (September 9, 1828 - June 13, 1894) was an Italian patriot and politician Biography Nicotera was born at Sambiase, in Calabria. Joining the Giuseppe Mazzini's movement of Giovine Italia ("Young Italy") he was among the combatants at Naples in May 1848, and battle with Garibaldi d..
Giovanni of Randazzo
Giovanni d'Aragona (d.1348), infante, duke of Randazzo, Atene, and Neopatria, and regent of Sicily (1342-1348), was the fourth son of Frederick II (III) of Sicily and the most powerful nobleman in Sicily during the reigns of his brother Peter and his nephew Louis, in whose minority he was regent. ..
Giovanni Ordelaffi
Giovanni Ordelaffi (Forlì, 1355-1399) was a member of the noble family of Ordelaffi, the Lords of Forlì, in Italy, in the XIV century and in the XV century. He was a famous condottiero. His most famous battle was the battle of Castagnaro (1387), in which he fighted for the city of Verona against..
Giovanni Pacini
Giovanni Pacini (February 2, 1796 - December 6, 1867, was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas. The family was of Tuscan origin, and just happened to be in Catan..
Giovanni Padovani
Giovanni Padovani (or Paduani) (b. ca. 1512) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer. He lived in Verona and was a student of Pietro Pitati. He published a number of esteemed treatises on various astronomical and mathematical subjects, the most well-known of which was a treatise on the sundial..
Giovanni Paisiello
Paisiello at the clavichord, by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1791. The score is Nina, o la pazza d'amore. Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello) (May 9, 1740 – June 5, 1816), was an Italian composer of the Classical era. Paisiello was born at Taranto, where he attended the Jesuit ..
Giovanni Palatucci
Giovanni Palatucci. Giovanni Palatucci (May 31, 1909, Montella, province of Avellino—February 10, 1945, Dachau concentration camp) was an Italian police official who saved thousands of Jews from being deported to Nazi extermination camps. He graduated in Law from the University of Turin..
Giovanni Paolo Cima
Giovanni Paolo Cima (about 1570 – 1622) was an Italian composer and organist in the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of the composers Claudio Monteverdi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, and Alessandro Stradella. Giovanni Cima came from a family of musicians and was a leading musical figure in M..
Giovanni Paolo Colonna
Giovanni Paolo Colonna (c. 1637 - November 28, 1695) was an Italian musician and composer. Biography Colonna was born in Bologna, then part of the Papal States. He was a pupil of Filippuzzi in his native city, and of Abbatini and Benevoli in Rome, where for a time he held the post of organist at S...
Giovanni Paolo Oliva
Giovanni Paolo Oliva, S.J. (October 4 1600 - 26 November 1681) was Superior General of the Society of Jesus. Oliva was born at Genoa in 1600, and in 1616, he entered the Society of Jesus. A famous pulpit orator, he was Apostolic Preacher of the Palace under Popes Innocent X, Alexander VII, Clement ..
Giovanni Paolo Pannini
The interior of the Pantheon, Rome Giovanni Paolo Pannini or Panini (Piacenza, June 17 1691 – Rome, October 21 1765) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known as one of the vedutista or "view painters". As a young man Pannini trained at Piacenza as a stage designer. He moved t..
Giovanni Papini
Giovanni Papini (January 9 1881, Florence—July 8 1956, Florence) was an Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist. Contents 1 Early life2 Before and during World War I3 Fascism and later years4 References5 External links Early life The son ..
Giovanni Parisi
Giovanni Parisi (born December 2, 1967) is an Italian boxer, who won the gold medal in the men's Featherweight (57 kg) category at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. ..
Giovanni Pascoli
Giovanni Pascoli (December 31, 1855—April 6, 1912) was an Italian poet and classical scholar. He had a tragic childhood with the murder of his father and the early deaths of his mother, sister and two brothers. His first work, Myracae (1891), reflects his morbid childhood. He studied at the ..
Giovanni Pasquale
Giovanni Pasquale (born 5 January 1982 in Venaria Reale) is an Italian football defender. He currently plays for Livorno. External links [archivio.inter.it] ..
Giovanni Passerini
Giovanni Passerini was an Italian botanist and entomologist , born on June 16, 1816 or 1819 in Pieve di Guastalla. He died on April 17 , 1893 in Parma . Giovanni Passerini was a professor of botany at the university of Parma. He is the author of several works on the aphids. His collection, of 5, ..
Giovanni Pastrone
Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco (born in Montechiaro d'Asti, 13 September 1883 - Turin 27 June 1959), was an Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter, actor and technician. He worked during the era of the silent film, but he influenced many important directors in..
Giovanni Perricelli
Giovanni Perricelli (born August 25, 1967 in Milan) is a Italian race walker. Achievements Year Tournament Venue Result Event 1994 European Championships Helsinki, Finland 3rd 50 km 1995 World Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 2nd 50 km External links IAAF profile for [Giovanni Perricell..
Giovanni Perrone
Giovanni Perrone (1794 - 26 August 1876) was an Italian theologian born in Chieri (Piedmont). He studied theology at Turin and at the age of 21 went to Rome, where he joined the Society of Jesus. In 1816 he was sent as professor of theology to Orvieto, and in 1823 was appointed to a similar post in ..
Giovanni Picchi
Giovanni Picchi (1571 or 1572 – May 17, 1643) was Italian composer, organist, lutenist, and harpsichordist of the early Baroque era. He was a late follower of the Venetian School, and was influential in the development and differentiation of instrumental forms which were just beginning to app..
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Pico della Mirandola 1463-1494. By an unknown artist, in the Uffizi, Florence. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (February 24, 1463 – November 17, 1494) was an Italian Renaissance humanist philosopher and scholar, whose short influential life was brilliant, peripatetic, adventurous and almo..
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c 1525–2 February 1594) was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous sixteenth-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina had a tremendous influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, a..
Giovanni Pisano
Giovanni Pisano (c. 1250-1314) was an Italian sculptor, painter and architect. Son of the famous sculptor Nicola Pisano, he recieved his training in the workshop of his father. In 1265-1268 he worked with his father at the pulpit in the Siena cathedral. The fountain Fontana Maggiora in Perugia is h..
Giovanni Pittella
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Giovanni Pontiero
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Giovanni Porta
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Giovanni Prati
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Giovanni Prezioso
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Giovanni Procacci
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Giovanni Ribisi
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Giovanni Ricciardi
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Giovanni Rinaldo
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Giovanni Roman
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Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz
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Giovanni Rosso
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Giovanni Rucellai
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Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi
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Giovanni Santi
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Giovanni Sartori
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Giovanni Savarese
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Giovanni Schiaparelli
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Giovanni Segantini
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Giovanni Sforza
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Giovanni Sgambati
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Giovanni Silva de Oliveira
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Giovanni Sollima
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Giovanni Sostero
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Giovanni Spadolini
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Giovanni Tedesco
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Giovanni Torlonia, 1st Prince di Civitella-Cesi
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Giovanni Trapattoni
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Giovanni Tuccari
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Giovanni Vacca
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Giovanni Vailati
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Giovanni Valentini
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Giovanni Valetti
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Giovanni van Bronckhorst
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Giovanni Velluti
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Giovanni Verga
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Giovanni Vigliotto
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Giovanni Villani
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Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina
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Giovanni Vitelleschi
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Giovanni Volpi
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Giovanni Zenatello
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Giovanny Espinoza
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Giovanny Hernández
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Giovanola
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Giovan Battista Carpi
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Giovan Battista Cini
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Giovan Battista Marino
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GIOVE
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Gioventù Fascista
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Giove (Italy)
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Giove in Argo
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Giovinazzo
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Giovinezza
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Giovonnie Samuels
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Gio Tribe
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Gio van Oli
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Góios
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