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Giovanna Trillini Giovanna Trillini (born 17 May, 1970 in Jesi) is an Italian foil fencer. She is a 4-time Olympic champion (3 times in the team event, 1 time individual) and she won an additional silver and 2 bronze medals in individual Olympic competitions.
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.
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 frequently profane, psychedelic music is created by Shaw in an attempt to get the band signed and into the charts.
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.
Giovanni Aloi Giovanni Timeus Aloi (born April 25, 1965 in Mexico City) is a Mexican race car driver who drove 3 races for GA Motorsports for part of the 1990 Formula 3000 season, but was not able to collect points. He finished twice fifteenth in a Reynard-Cosworth at Silverstone and Jerez.
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio or Beltraffio (Milan 1466/67 According to his tombstone he was 49 at his death in 1516. — Milan, 1516) was a Lombard painter of the High Renaissance who worked in the studio of Leonardo.
Giovanni Antonio Burrini Giovanni Antonio Burrini (1656—1727) was a Bolognese painter of Late-Baroque or Rococo style. After an apprenticeship with Domenico Maria Canuti, he went to work under Lorenzo Pasinelli with fellow student, Gia Gioseffe Dal Sole.
Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini Giovanni Antonio (Gianantonio) del Balzo Orsini (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 (1433-63) and of Ugento (1453-63).
Giovanni Antonio Magini 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.
Giovanni Battista Giovanni Battista, was a common Italian name (see Battista) in the 16th-18th centuries, which in English means "John the Baptist". A very common nickname for this name was Giambattista, Gianbattista or Giovambattista.
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.
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re His Eminence Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re (born 30 January 1934) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church whose service has been primarily limited to the Roman Curia. He currently serves as Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and has been a cardinal since 21 February 2001.
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 visiting most of the capitals of Europe.
Giovanni Battista Gaulli Giovanni Battista Gaulli (May 8 1639- April 2 1709), also known as Baciccio, Il Baciccio or Baciccia (all Genoese nicknames for Giovanni Battista) was a painter of the Italian High Baroque verging onto that of the Rococo. He is best known for his grand, Gianlorenzo Bernini-influenced illusionistic vault fresco in the church of the Gesu in Rome
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 eels, and on termites.
Giovanni Battista Hodierna 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.
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.
Giovanni Battista Michelini Giovanni Battista Michelini (also called il Folignate )(born in 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.
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.
Giovanni Battista Paggi Giovanni Battista Paggi (27 February 1554-1627) was a Genovese painter of the Late-Renaissance and early-Baroque. He is known as one of the followers of the style of Luca Cambiasi and the teacher of Giulio Benso,Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Sinibaldo Scorza, Domenico Fiasella, and Giovanni Andrea Podesta.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi Giovanni Battista (also Giambattista) Piranesi (4 October 1720 - 9 November 1778) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'Invenzione).
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.
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, as famous in his time as Enrico Caruso in a later day. His ringing and expressive coloratura dexterity in the highest register of his voice, the tenorino inspired the writing of operatic roles which today are almost impossible to cast.
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (also known as Giovanni Battista Salvi) (August 25, 1609 - August 8, 1685) was an Italian Baroque painter. He is often referred to only by the town of his birthplace (Sassoferrato), as was customary in his time, and for example seen with da Vinci and Caravaggio.
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 3 operas, over 70 symphonies, concertos and chamber music, which show, the symphonies especially, the beginnings of a change from the brief opera-overture style and the introduction of a new seriousness and use of thematic development that prefigure Haydn and Mozart.
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 Berchet Giovanni Berchet, a poet and patriot, was born in Milan in 1783. He wrote an influencial manifesto on Italian Romanticism, Lettera semiseria di Grisostomo, which appeared in 1816, and contributed to Il Conciliatore, a reformist periodical.
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 poetry in the vernacular. Boccaccio's characters are notable for their era in that they are realistic, spirited and clever individuals who are grounded in reality (in contrast to the characters of his contemporaries, who were more concerned with the Medieval virtues of Chivalry, Piety, and Humility).
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.
Giovanni Borgia (1498) Giovanni Borgia (March 1498 – 1548), the infans Romanus ("Roman child"), 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 father is assigned to him, the second appearing to supplement and correct the first.
Giovanni Branca Giovanni Branca, an Italian engineer and architect, born in April 22 1571 to January 24 1645. At the 16th century, a new type of book appeared which evolved into an entire genre of literature known as the Theater of machines.
Giovanni Brusca Giovanni Brusca (born May 20, 1957 in San Giuseppe Jato) is a former member of the Sicilian Mafia. A podgy, bearded and unkempt mafioso, Brusca was known in Mafia circles as Il Porco (The Pig) or "lo scanna cristiani" (the man who throttles people).
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 gobelins by Frederick the Great.
Giovanni Cardinal Benelli Giovanni 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.
Giovanni Cardinal Cheli Giovanni Cardinal Cheli (born October 4, 1918, Turin, Italy) is a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was, along with Achille Silvestrini and Pio Laghi, one of the most prominent Vatican diplomats under Pope John Paul II.
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.
Giovanni Cavazzi da Montecuccolo Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi da Montecuccolo (1621-1678) was an Italian Capuchin missionary noted for his travels in 17th century Angola (then a Portuguese colony) and his lengthy account of local history and culture as well as a history of the Capuchin mission there.
Giovanni Ceva Giovanni Ceva, pronounced "Chevva" (December 7, 1647–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 Croce 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 prominent as a madrigalist, one of the few among the Venetians other than Monteverdi.
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").
Giovanni da Capistrano Saint Giovanni da Capestrano (in English, John Capistrano, June 24, 1386 – Villach, 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, King of Naples.
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 dominion.
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. He should not be confused with Martino da Udine, otherwise known as Pellegrino da San Daniele (1467-1547).
Giovanni de Sanctis Giovanni de Sanctis is an Italian astronomer at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino (Astronomical Observatory of Turin) in Turin, Italy. His name is sometimes spelt DeSanctis, particularly in the Minor Planet Circulars.
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 and the Medici bank; father of Cosimo de' Medici (Pater Patriae), and great-grandfather of Lorenzo de Medici (the Magnificent). He was the son of Averardo de' Medici, little is known about him.
Giovanni di Lorenzo Giovanni di Lorenzo (born March 9, 1959) is a German-Italian journalist. Editor-in-chief (since 2004) of German nationwide weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and former editor-in-chief of Berlin's liberal daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel (1999-2004; has since retained the position of publisher).
Giovanni Dalmata Ivan Duknović, called Giovanni Dalmata (also known as Giovanni di Trau and Ioannes Stephani Duknovich de Tragurio) was a Croatian sculptor who was mainly active in Rome, in Hungary and Dalmatia. Giovanni Dalmata was, with Mino da Fiesole and Andrea Bregno, the leading sculptor in Rome in the second half of the 15th century.
Giovanni De Micheli Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, and President of the Scientific Committee of CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
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.
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.
Giovanni Domenico Cassini Giovanni Domenico Cassini (June 8, 1625–September 14, 1712) was an Italian astronomer, engineer, and astrologer. Cassini, also known as Giandomenico Cassini, was born in Perinaldo, nearby Sanremo, at that time in the Republic of Genoa.
Giovanni Dosi Giovanni Dosi is Professor of Economics at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, where he also coordinates the Doctoral Program in Economics and Management and leads the Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM)[http://www.lem.
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.
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 AntichitĂ  ed altre Notizie (Malta illustrated, with its Antiquities, and other information).
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 first apprenticed.
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 Mannerist Florentine sculptor in bronze and marble, trained in the workshop of Giambologna.
Giovanni Galbaio Giovanni Galbaio was the eighth 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.
Giovanni Gentile Giovanni Gentile (IPA:) (May 30, 1875 - April 15, 1944) was an Italian neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher, a peer of Benedetto Croce. He described himself as 'the philosopher of Fascism', and ghostwrote A Doctrine of Fascism (1932) for Benito Mussolini.
Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole (10 December 1654 – 22 July 1719) was a Bolognese painter and engraver, active in the late-Baroque period. His father, Giovanni Antonio Maria (1606–84), was a landscape painter who trained with Francesco Albani.
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'HonestĂ  non si vince, was successfully produced in 1798.
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” in Italian politics.
Giovanni Henrico Albicastro Giovanni Henrico Albicastro was the pseudonym of Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg (ca 1660 — after 1730), a talented amateur of music who published his compositions pseudonymously. Albicastro came from the village of Bieswangen, near Pappenheim in central Bavaria, not far from the village of Weissenburg ("White Castle", thus "Albicastro").
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.
Giovanni II Participazio Giovanni II Participazio (or Particiaco) was the thirteenth (historical) or fifteenth (traditional) Doge of Venice after the death of his father, Orso I, in 881 until his resignation in 887. Prior to that, he co-ruled with his father.
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 model is named after him.
Giovanni Lajolo Giovanni Lajolo (born January 3, 1935 in Novara, Italy) is the current Governor of Vatican City. He previously served as the Secretary for Relations with States in the Secretariat of State, or foreign minister of Vatican City, since October 7, 2003 until his appointment as Governor.
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.
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.
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.
Giovanni Lorenzo Berti The General of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine, Sciaffinati, told Laurentius Berti (-1766) to write a book, to be used by all the students of the Order, expounding the whole of Augustine’s thought and particularly his doctrine of grace and free will.
Giovanni Luppis Giovanni Biagio Luppis von Rammer (Croatian Ivan Blaž Lupis Vukić) (August 27, 1813 – January 11, 1875) was an Italian officer of the Austrian Navy, born in Fiume (today Rijeka, in Croatia), who had the idea of the first self-propelled torpedo.
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.
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.
Giovanni Morelli Giovanni Morelli (1816 - 1891) was an Italian art critic and political figure. As an art historian, he developed the "Morellian" technique of scholarship, identifying the characteristics "hands" of painters through scrutiny of minor details that revealed artists' scarcely conscious shorthand and conventions for portraying, for example, ears.
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.
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 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 appear, such as the sonata and the ensemble canzona; in addition he was the only Venetian of his time to write dance music for harpsichord.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (born February 24, 1463, died November 17, 1494) was an Italian Renaissance philosopher."Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Conte" in Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge, volume 15, copyright 1991.
Giovanni Prati Giovanni Prati (Dasindo, province of Trento 27 January 1815 - Rome 9 May 1884) was an Italian poet born in what then was part of the Austrian Empire and educated in law at Padua. Adopting a literary career, he was inspired by anti-Austrian feeling and devotion to the royal house of Savoy, and in early life his combination of a sympathy for national independence with monarchical sentiments brought him into trouble in both quarters, to the point that Guerrazzi expelled him from Tuscany in 1849 for his praise of Carlo Alberto.
Giovanni Procacci Giovanni Procacci (born May 4, 1955 in Bari), is an Italian politician, and was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the 2006 General election. Previously he was a Member of the European Parliament and a member of its Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
Giovanni Punto Giovanni Punto (born Jan Václav Stich) (1746-1803) was a horn player (more correctly, he played the cor basse) and a pioneer of the hand stopping technique which allows natural horns to play fully chromatic music.
Giovanni Ribisi Antonino Giovanni Ribisi (born December 17, 1974 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. He began his career in network television with recurring and guest roles on a number of shows, including The Wonder Years and My Two Dads.
Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi (Siena-Austria, 1573), the son of Baldassare Peruzzi was also an architect. In Rome he designed the ceremonial entrance to the Castel Sant'Angelo, and designed and began the rebuilding of S.
Giovanni Sforza Giovanni Sforza d'Aragona, Conte de Cotognola, Principe di Pesaro (1466 - July 27, 1510) was an Italian condottiero, lord of Pesaro and Gradara from 1483 until his death. He is best known as the first husband of Lucrezia Borgia.
Giovanni Spadolini Giovanni Spadolini (June 21, 1925 – August 6 1994), born in Florence, was a liberal Italian politician and a member of the Italian Republican Party (PRI). He served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1981 to 1982, the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Italy not from the Christian Democracy party.
Giovanni Velluti (castrato) Giovanni Battista Velluti, colloquially "Giambattista" (January 28 1780–January 22 1861) was an Italian castrato. He is also considered "last of the great castrati" and had a reputation of being something of a diva, with some singers refusing to appear with him.
Giovanni Villani Giovanni Villani (ca 1275-1348), the Florentine writer of the famous chronicles (the Cronica) is the greatest Italian chronicler of his own times and the cornerstone of the early medieval history of Florence. His interest in economic details makes him the most modern of the late medieval chroniclers.
Giovanni Vincenzo Acquaviva d'Aragona Giovanni Vincenzo Acquaviva d'Aragona (born between 1490 and 1495 in Naples in Italy, died 16th August 1546 in Itri) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He became bishop of Melfi & Rampolla in 1537.
Giovanni Volpi Count Giovanni Volpi di Misurata was an automobile racing manager and founder of the renowned Venice Film Festival. He inherited the fortune of his father, politician and financier, Giuseppe Volpi, at the age of 24.
Giovanola Giovanola is one of the prominent thrill ride manufacturers in the world. Although they are well known for their thrill rides, they also build electrical power stations, water storage tanks, pipelines, highway bridges, and many other steel products.
GioventĂą Fascista GioventĂą Fascista ("Fascist Youth") was a magazine designed for youth in Italy under Benito Mussolini's Fascist state. Its features included stories and cartoons praising the regime and inculcating the tenets of Fascism.
Gipping Rural District Gipping Rural District was a rural district in the county of East Suffolk, England. It was created in 1934 by the merger of the disbanded Bosemere and Claydon Rural District and the disbanded East Stow Rural District, under a County Review Order.
Gippog In the television series The League of Gentlemen, Gippog is the Gibberish language that Papa Lazarou speaks. In the first episode of the second series, it is revealed by his "Wife" that the language is entirely made up as he goes along, which leads soon-to-be-stolen housewife Mary Hobbs into a new life with Papa.
Gippsland Lakes The Gippsland Lakes are a network of lakes, marshes and lagoons in east Gippsland, Victoria, Australia covering an area of about 600 km sq, The largest of the lakes are Lake Wellington, Lake King and Lake Victoria. They are fed by the Avon, Thomson, Latrobe, Mitchell, Nicholson and Tambo rivers.
Gippsland massacres The Aboriginal people of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, known as the Gunai/Kurnai people, fought against the European invasion of their land. The technical superiority of the Europeans' weapons gave them an absolute advantage.
Gippsland railway line, Victoria The Gippsland Railway is the general name for rail lines between Melbourne and Gippsland. Rail lines were built to Gippsland in the 1870s and initially played a crucial role in developing agricultural industries in Gippsland as well as tourism.
Gipsy (comics) Gipsy is a science fiction graphic novel series by the italian artist Enrico Marini and his writer Thierry Smolderen. The eponymous main character is a charismatic Roma truck driver who works on a world-wide net of motorways as a freelance trader with his own large truck.
Gipton Gipton is an early twentieth-century council estate between Harehills and Seacroft in north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It suffers from serious social problems and has long been wrongly considered one of the city's worst estates, but never being treated as a no-go area by the police or other services.
Gipuzkoan Gipuzkoan is a dialect of the Basque language spoken in the Guipuzcoa (Basque: Gipuzkoa) province of the Basque Country, Spain. It exists as a dual language status with Castilian (Spanish) in the region where it is spoken.
Gir Forest National Park The Gir Forest National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary (also known as Sasan-Gir) is the sole home of the pure Asiatic Lions (Panthera leo persica). Measuring about 258 km² for the fully protected area (the National Park) and 1153 km² for the Sanctuary, the area is considered to be one of the most important protected areas in Asia due to its supported species.

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