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Italian painter (1696–1770)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.

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15th- and 16th-century Italian Renaissance painter (1430–1516)

Giovanni Bellini

Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters.

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Italian author and poet (1313–1375)

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.

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Italian Renaissance philosopher (1463–1494)

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher.

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Italian Dominican friar and preacher (1452-1498)

Girolamo Savonarola

Girolamo Savonarola, OP, also referred to as Jerome Savonarola, was an Italian ascetic Dominican friar from Ferrara and a preacher active in Renaissance Florence.

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Italian politician and statesman (1919–2013)

Giulio Andreotti

Giulio Andreotti was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the 41st prime minister of Italy in seven governments.

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Italian general, patriot and republican (1807–1882)

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican.

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Italian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher

Giuseppe Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, lawyer, journalist, philosopher, and political activist who worked for the unification of Italy and was a major leader of the Italian revolutionary movement.

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Medieval Frankish knight

Godfrey of Bouillon

Godfrey of Bouillon was a preeminent leader of the First Crusade, and the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1099 to 1100.

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