| bernini | (n) Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680), Syn. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini |
| boccaccio | (n) Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375), Syn. Giovanni Boccaccio |
| cabot | (n) Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498), Syn. Giovanni Cabato, John Cabot |
| casanova | (n) an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798), Syn. Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt, Casanova de Seingalt, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova |
| cimabue | (n) painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302), Syn. Giovanni Cimabue |
| clement xi | (n) Italian pope from 1700 to 1721 who condemned Jansenist ideas on papal infallibility, Syn. Giovanni Francesco Albani |
| francis of assisi | (n) (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian and the Roman Catholic monk who founded the Franciscan order of friars (1181-1226), Syn. Giovanni di Bernardone, Saint Francis, St. Francis, St. Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis of Assisi |
| innocent viii | (n) Italian pope from 1484 to 1492 who was known as a nepotist and was attacked by Savonarola for his worldliness (1432-1492), Syn. Giovanni Battista Cibo |
| leo x | (n) son of Lorenzo de'Medici and pope from 1513 to 1521 who excommunicated Martin Luther and who in 1521 bestowed on Henry VIII the title of Defender of the Faith (1475-1521), Syn. Giovanni de'Medici |
| leo xiii | (n) Italian pope from 1878 to 1903 who was interested in the advancement of learning and who opened the Vatican secret archives to all scholars, Syn. Giovanni Vincenzo Pecci, Gioacchino Pecci |
| palestrina | (n) Italian composer (1526-1594), Syn. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina |
| paul vi | (n) Italian pope from 1963 to 1978 who eased restrictions on fasting and on interfaith marriages (1897-1978), Syn. Giovanni Battista Montini |
| pius ix | (n) Italian pope from 1846 to 1878 who in 1854 declared the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, Syn. Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti, Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti |
| pius vi | (n) Italian pope from 1775 to 1799 who served during the French Revolution; Napoleon attacked the Papal States and in 1797 Pius VI was taken to France where he died (1717-1799), Syn. Giannangelo Braschi, Giovanni Angelo Braschi |
| schiaparelli | (n) Italian astronomer who first noted lines (which he called canals) on the surface of Mars (1835-1910), Syn. Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli |
| tiepolo | (n) Italian painter (1696-1770), Syn. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo |
| verrazano | (n) Florentine navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America (circa 1485-1528), Syn. Verrazzano, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Giovanni da Verrazano |
