Giordano, Luca
Neapolitan painter; b. at Naples, 1632; d. in the same place, 12 Jan., 1705.
Giotto di Bondone
A Florentine painter, and founder of the Italian school of painting, b. most probably, in the village of Vespignano near Florence; d. at Milan, 8 Jan., 1337.
Giovanelli, Ruggiero
Composer, b. at Velletri, near Rome, in 1560; d. at Rome, 7 January, 1625.
Giovanni Melchior Bosco, Saint
Commonly called Don Bosco or John Bosco. Founder of the Salesians, d. 1888.
Giraldi, Giovanni Battista
Italian dramatist and novelist; b. at Ferrara, Italy, 1504; d. there, 1573.
Girard, Jean-Baptiste
Known as Père Girard, a Swiss pedagogue, b. at Fribourg, 17 December, 1765; d. there, 6 March, 1850.
Girardon, François
A noted sculptor of the reign of Louis XIV, b. at Troyes, France, 1630; d. at Paris, 1715.
Giraud de Borneil
A Provençal troubadour, b. about the middle of the twelfth century, at Excideuil in the Viscounty of Limoges.
Gisbert, Blaise
French rhetorician and critic; born at Cahors, 21 February, 1657; died at Montpellier, 21 February, 1731.
Giulio Romano
A famous architect and painter, the best-known of Raphael's pupils, and the unique representative of the so-called "Roman School"; b. at Rome in 1492; d. at Mantua in 1546.
Giuseppe Giusti
A poet and patriot; b. 1809, at Monsumano near Pescia, Italy; d. 31 March, 1850.
Glaber, Raoul
Benedictine chronicler; b. in Burgundy before 1000; d. at Cluny about 1050.
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