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(Encyclopedia) Giovanni Gondola: see Gundulić, Ivan. ...

(Encyclopedia) Gondola, Giovanni: see Gundulić, Ivan. ...

(Encyclopedia) Pisano, Giovanni: see under Pisano, Nicola. ...

(Encyclopedia) Agnelli, Giovanni: see under Agnelli, family. ...

(Encyclopedia) Cima, Giovanni Battista jōvänˈnē bät-tēˈstä chēˈmä [key], c.1459–c.1517, Venetian painter, called Cima da Conegliano. Influenced by Giovanni Bellini and Antonello da Messina, he created m...

(Encyclopedia) Grimaldi, Giovanni Francesco fränchāsˈkō grēmälˈdē [key], 1606–80, Italian painter and architect, called Il Bolognese. He was a pupil of the Carracci and of Francesco Albani. With the excep...

(Encyclopedia) Boltraffio or Beltraffio, Giovanni Antonio jōvänˈnē äntôˈnyō bōlträfˈfyō, bāl– [key], 1467–1516, Italian painter, b. Milan. He was a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, whose style he adhered...

(Encyclopedia) Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto kästēlyōˈnā [key], 1610?–1670, Italian painter and engraver of the Genoese school, called Il Grechetto. In his later years Castiglione was court painter at Mant...

(Encyclopedia) Gentile, Giovanni jōvänˈnē jāntēˈlā [key], 1875–1944, Italian philosopher and educator. He taught philosophy in several Italian universities and for many years contributed to the magazine of...

(Encyclopedia) Grassi, Giovanni Battista jōvänˈnē bät-tēˈstä gräsˈsē [key], 1854–1925, Italian zoologist. He demonstrated (1898) that the Anopheles mosquito carries the plasmodium of malaria in its dige...