Giovanni Arduino is the name of:

* Giovanni Arduino ( geologist ) ( 1714 – 1795 ), known as the “ father of Italian Geology ”

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* 1714 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist ( d. 1795 )

The term Quaternary (" fourth ") was proposed by Giovanni Arduino in 1759 for alluvial deposits in the Po river valley in northern Italy.

The term Tertiary was first used by Giovanni Arduino during the mid-18th century.

* March 21 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist ( b. 1714 )

* October 16 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist ( d. 1795 )

Lehmann, Georg Christian Füchsel, and Giovanni Arduino were founders of stratigraphy.

* 1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and author ( d. 1803 )

Fernipharus ( after Duke Ferdinand de ' Medici )-by Giovanni Batista Hodierna, a disciple of Galileo and author of the first ephemerides ( Medicaeorum Ephemerides, 1656 );

Giovanni Boccaccio (; 1313 – 21 December 1375 ) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular.

His early influences included Paolo da Perugia ( a curator and author of a collection of myths, the Collectiones ), the humanists Barbato da Sulmona and Giovanni Barrili, and the theologian Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro.

In the fresco by Melozzo da Forlì he is accompanied by his Della Rovere and Riario nephews, not all of whom were made cardinals: the protonotary apostolic Pietro Riario ( on his right ), the future Pope Julius II standing before him, and Girolamo Riario and Giovanni della Rovere behind the kneeling Platina, author of the first humanist history of the Popes.

** Giovanni Luigi Bonelli, Italian comic book author and writer ( d. 2001 )

* Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author ( 1313 – 1375 ).

So too could the first major English author to write in this style, William Painter, who borrowed from, amongst others, Herodotus, Plutarch, Aulus Gellius, Claudius Aelianus, Livy, Tacitus, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, and Bandello himself.

Principally, by Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), author of The Decameron ( 1353 )— one hundred novelle told by ten people, seven women and three men, fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348 ; and by the French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre ( 1492 – 1549 ), Marguerite de Valois, et.

Then, in 1908, in his article " A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God ", mentioning both James and the journalist, pragmatist, and literary author Giovanni Papini, Peirce wrote:

Petrarch's disciple, Giovanni Boccaccio, became a major author in his own right.

Among the best-known people who have attended the University of Pisa are Italian Presidents Giovanni Gronchi and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ; Haitian President René Préval ; Nicaraguan President Adan Cardenas ; Pope Clement XII ; Italian Prime Ministers Sidney Sonnino, Giuliano Amato and Massimo D ' Alema ; Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi ; Italian political leaders Carlo Sforza, Paolo Emilio Taviani, Alessandro Natta, Enrico Letta, Marcello Pera, Fabio Mussi and Sandro Bondi ; Italian Constitutional Court Judge Sabino Cassese ; Roman Catholic Cardinals Pietro Accolti, Benedetto Accolti the Younger, Francesco Barberini, Francesco Martelli and Bandino Panciatici ; Roman Catholic Archbishop Giovanni Battista Rinuccini ; Nobel Laureate in Literature Giosuè Carducci ; Nobel Laureates in Physics Enrico Fermi and Carlo Rubbia ; anatomist Atto Tigri ; art historian and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev ; author Antonio Tabucchi ; civil engineer Henry Willey Reveley ; computer scientist Roberto Di Cosmo ; diplomats Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo and Marcello Spatafora ; director and screenwriter Mario Monicelli ; economist Luigi Bodio ; egyptologist Ippolito Rosellini ; electron microscopist Clara Franzini-Armstrong ; geneticist Guido Pontecorvo ; historians Camillo Porzio and Carlo Ginzburg ; intellectual Adriano Sofri ; international civil servant Francesco Cappè ; journalists Lando Ferretti and Tiziano Terzani ; jurists Piero Calamandrei, Francesco Carrara and Antonio Cassese ; linguists Stefano Arduini and Luigi Rizzi ; manager Pier Francesco Guarguaglini ; mathematicians Bonaventura Cavalieri, Giovanni Ceva, Enrico Betti, Guido Fubini, Vito Volterra and Luigi Fantappiè ; neuroscientist Emilio Bizzi ; philosophers Giovanni Gentile and Anna Camaiti Hostert ; physicians Francesco Redi, Vincenzo Chiarugi and François Carlo Antommarchi ; physicists Adolfo Bartoli, Luigi Puccianti, Antonio Pacinotti, Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti, Franco Rasetti and Luca Gammaitoni ; playwright and librettist Giacinto Andrea Cicognini ; racing car and engine designer Carlo Chiti ; surgeon Andrea Vaccá Berlinghieri ; tenor Andrea Bocelli ; writer Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi.

Buried there are Carlo Collodi, creator of Pinocchio ; politician Giovanni Spadolini ; painter Pietro Annigoni ; poet and author Luigi Ugolini ; film producer Mario Cecchi Gori ; sculptor Libero Andreotti ; writer Giovanni Papini ; and physicist Bruno Benedetto Rossi.

In the 1930s there followed three anthologies, journalistic reviews and a third biography The Tranquil Heart about the Italian Renaissance author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1937 ).

The morning celebration also featured remarks by Sen. Dick Durbin ; Lincoln scholar and ALBC Co-Chair Harold Holzer ; recently retired Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice – and ALBC Commissioner – Frank J. Williams ; and author Nikki Giovanni reciting her newest work, which was written especially for the Bicentennial.

Giovanni Lindo Ferretti ( born 9 September 1953 ) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer and author.

His father, Giovanni Battista Nenna, was a city official of Bari, and was the author of " Il Nennio: nel quale si ragiona di nobilta ", a book on nobility and character, published in 1542.

Some say he may have met Giovanni Pico della Mirandola while in Florence and composed for him a discourse on the “ Harmony of the Skies .” If so, he also probably associated with Elia de Medigo, teacher of Pico della Mirandola, Yohanan Alemanno ( a Jewish writer influenced by the Medici court and mysticism and author of Song of songs ), Giovanni Pontano, Mario Equicola and monk Egidio da Viterbo.

Alberto Giacometti was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia and came from an artistic background ; his father, Giovanni, was a well-known post-Impressionist painter.

Saint Francis of Assisi ( born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone ; 1181 died: October 3, 1226 ) was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher.

Pietro was in France on business when Francis was born, and Pica had him baptised as Giovanni di Bernardone.

Giovanni Aldini ( April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834 ), Italian physicist born at Bologna, was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini ( 1756 – 1826 ) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treaties on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791.

Giovanni d ' Andrea was born at Rifredo, near Florence, and studied Roman law and canon law at the University of Bologna, the great law school of the age, where he distinguished himself in this subject so much that he was made professor at Padua, and then at Pisa before returning to Bologna, where he remained from the season of 1301-02 until his death, save for brief seasons at Padua 1307-09 and 1319.

Giovanni Villani, a contemporary of Boccaccio and chronicler, states that he was born in Paris as a consequence of an illicit relation but others denounce this as a romanticism by the earliest biographers.

One possible place of birth is Venice's former contrada of San Giovanni Crisostomo, which is sometimes presented by historians as the birthplace, and it is generally accepted that Marco Polo was born in the Venetian Republic with most biographers pointing towards Venice itself as Marco Polo's home town.

A son, Giovanni, was born in 1337, and a daughter, Francesca, was born in 1343.

The Venerable Pope Pius XII (; ), born Eugenio Marìa Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli ( 2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958 ), reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958.

Eugenio Marìa Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli was born on 2 March 1876 in Rome into a family of intense Catholic piety with a history of ties to the papacy ( the " Black Nobility ").

Pius IV ( 31 March 1499 – 9 December 1565 ), born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was Pope from 1559 to 1565.

Giovanni Angelo Medici, distantly related to the Medicis of Florence, was born of humble parentage in Milan.

Pope Clement XI ( 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721 ), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was Pope from 1700 until his death in 1721.

Pope Clement XIV ( 31 October 1705 – 22 September 1774 ), born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, was Pope from 1769 to 1774.

Pope Urban VII ( 4 August 1521 – 27 September 1590 ), born Giovanni Battista Castagna, was Pope for thirteen days in September 1590, the shortest papal reign in history.

Pope Sylvester III, né Giovanni dei Crescenzi – Ottaviani ( died 1062 or 1063 ), born in Rome, was Pope for a short time in 1045.

Pope Innocent VIII ( 1432 – 25 July 1492 ), born Giovanni Battista Cybo ( or Cibo ), was Pope from 1484 until his death.

Giovanni Battista Cybo ( or Cibo ) was born at Genoa of Greek ancestry,

Pope Innocent IX ( 20 July 1519 – 30 December 1591 ), born Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, was Pope from 29 October 1591 to his death on 30 December of the same year.

Pope Innocent X ( 6 May 1574 – 7 January 1655 ), born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj ( or Pamphili ), was Pope from 1644 to 1655.

Pope Julius III ( 10 September 1487 – 23 March 1555 ), born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was Pope from 7 February 1550 to 1555.

Julius III was born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte in Rome in 1487.

Masaccio (; December 21, 1401 – autumn 1428 ), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance.