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Cinthio

(Encyclopedia)Cinthio: see Giraldi, Giovanni Battista. ...

Cinzio

(Encyclopedia)Cinzio: see Giraldi, Giovanni Battista. ...

Cyntius

(Encyclopedia)Cyntius: see Giraldi, Giovanni Battista. ...

Baciccio, Il

(Encyclopedia)Baciccio, Il: see Gaulli, Giovanni Battista. ...

Cerano, Il

(Encyclopedia)Cerano, Il: see Crespi, Giovanni Battista. ...

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Conte

(Encyclopedia)Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Conte jōvänˈnē kōnˈtā pēˈkō dĕlˈlä mēränˈdōlä [key], 1463–94, Italian philosopher and humanist. To many in the age of the Renaissance, Pico was the ...

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

(Encyclopedia)Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da jōvänˈnē pyārlo͞oēˈjē päˌlāstrēˈnä [key], c.1525–1594, Italian composer whose family name was Pierluigi; b. Palestrina, from which he took his name. ...

Carpini, Giovanni de Piano

(Encyclopedia)Carpini, Giovanni de Piano jōvänˈnē dā pyäˈnō kärpēˈnē [key], c.1180–1252, Italian traveler and Franciscan monk, b. Pian del Carpini (now Piano della Magione), Umbria. He was a companion...

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