Giordano Bruno
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~ Italian philosopher who used Copernican principles to develop a pantheistic monistic philosophy; condemned for heresy by the Inquisition and burned at the stake (1548-1600)
Giorgio de Chirico
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~ Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978)
Giosue Carducci
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~ Italian poet considered the national poet of modern Italy (1835-1907)
giotto
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~ 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
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~ 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
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~ 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 Cabato
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~ 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 de'Medici
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~ 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
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~ (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian and the Roman Catholic monk who founded the Franciscan order of friars (1181-1226)
Giovanni Battista Cibo
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~ Italian pope from 1484 to 1492 who was known as a nepotist and was attacked by Savonarola for his worldliness (1432-1492)
Giovanni Francesco Albani
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~ Italian pope from 1700 to 1721 who condemned Jansenist ideas on papal infallibility
Giovanni Cimabue
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~ painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302)
Giovanni Boccaccio
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~ Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375)