giotto
- n Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337)
giotto di bondone
- n Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337)
giovanni angelo braschi
- 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)
giovanni battista cibo
- n Italian pope from 1484 to 1492 who was known as a nepotist and was attacked by Savonarola for his worldliness (1432-1492)
giovanni battista montini
- n Italian pope from 1963 to 1978 who eased restrictions on fasting and on interfaith marriages (1897-1978)
giovanni cabato
- 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)
giovanni cimabue
- n painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302)
giovanni da verrazano
- n Florentine navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America (circa 1485-1528)
giovanni da verrazzano
- n Florentine navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America (circa 1485-1528)
giovanni de'medici
- 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)
giovanni di bernardone
- n (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian and the Roman Catholic monk who founded the Franciscan order of friars (1181-1226)