Galileo's microscope was celebrated in the Accademia dei Lincei in 1624 and was the first such device to be given the name " microscope " a year later by fellow Lincean Giovanni Faber.

* Giovanni Faber, German papal doctor and botanist ( born 1574 )

* Giovanni Faber ( 1574 – 1629 ) German papal doctor, botanist, and member of the Accademia dei Lincei sometimes called " Johann Faber "

In early 1600, Elsheimer arrived in Rome and quickly made friends with contacts of Rottenhammer, notably Giovanni Faber, a Papal doctor, botanist and collector originally from Bamberg.

The coining of the name " microscope " has been credited to Giovanni Faber, who gave that name to Galileo Galilei's compound microscope in 1625.

This " Dutch perspective glass " ( the name " telescope " would not be coined until three years later by Giovanni Demisiani ) had a three-times magnification.

* Giovanni Demisiani-Greek theologian, chemist, mathematician, coined name " telescope "

* Giovanni Faber-Italian mathematician, coined name " microscope "

In the west, the origins of the psychological novel can be traced as far back as Giovanni Boccaccio's 1344 Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta ; that is before the term psychology was coined.

Giovanni Arduino is the name of:

Finally, on 7 February 1550, the cardinals chose Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, who took the name Julius III.

Instead, it elected Cardinal Giovanni Battista Pamphili as his successor at the papal conclave of 1644, who took the name of Innocent X.

Of those who took part in the council's opening session, four have become pontiffs to date: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, who on succeeding Pope John XXIII took the name of Paul VI ; Bishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I ; Bishop Karol Wojtyła, who became Pope John Paul II ; and Father Joseph Ratzinger, present as a theological consultant, who became Pope Benedict XVI.

Alesi, born in France but of Italian descent, went by his real given name of Giovanni until teasing from classmates led him to adopting a more French first name.

The origin of the designation Acadia is credited to the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, who on his 16th century map applied the ancient Greek name " Arcadia " to the entire Atlantic coast north of Virginia.

Following the advice of Giovanni da Procida ( a famous citizen of that time ), King Manfred of Sicily, Frederick II's son, ordered a dock that still now has his name, to be built.

The Greek form of the name, Tharsis, was given by Giovanni Schiaparelli to a region on Mars.

Multiple surnames may be derived from a single given name: e. g. there are thought to be over 90 Italian surnames based on the given name " Giovanni ".

The same name was also used by Florentines, such as the poet Fazio degli Uberti ( circa 1309 – 1367 ), the famous chronicler Giovanni Villani ( c. 1275 – 1348 ), and Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), who wrote that the Brenta River rises from the mountains of Carantania, a land in the Alps dividing Italy from Germany.

" Among the most prominent are the Irish ballad " Finnegan's Wake " from which the book takes its name, Italian philosopher Giovanni Battista Vico's La Scienza Nuova, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the plays of Shakespeare, and religious texts such as the Bible and Qur ' an.

* The Corner Room's name comes from the presence of various paintings depicting Doge Giovanni Corner ( 1625 – 1629 ).

The origin of the designation Acadia is credited to the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, who on his 16th century map applied the ancient Greek name " Arcadia " to the entire Atlantic coast north of Virginia ( note the inclusion of the ' r ' of the original Greek name ).

The name was first used by Giovanni Lorenzo Gregori in a set of 10 compositions published in Lucca in 1698.

In Italian, the basilica's name translates as Arcibasilica del Santissimo Salvatore e Santi Giovanni Battista ed Evangelista in Laterano.

The name was invented by the Greek poet / theologian Giovanni Demisiani at a banquet held on April 14, 1611 by Prince Federico Cesi to make Galileo Galilei a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.

The frieze below the pediment carries the name of the patron: IOHAN ( N ) ES ORICELLARIUS PAU ( LI ) F ( ILIUS ) AN ( NO ) SAL ( UTIS ) MCCCCLXX ( Giovanni Rucellai son of Paolo in the blessed year 1470 ).

The name occurs in the writings of Giovanni da Pian del Carpine ( ca.

Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

He founded the Academy of Naples under Giovanni Pontano and, for his entrance in the city in 1443, had a magnificent triumphal arch added to the main gate of Castel Nuovo.

Sometime between 1763 and 1764 Salieri suffered the death of both parents and was briefly taken in by an anonymous brother, a monk in Padua, and then for unknown reasons in 1765 or 1766 he became the ward of a Venetian nobleman named Giovanni Mocenigo ( which Giovanni is at this time unknown ), a member of the powerful and well connected Mocenigo family.

In addition, when Lorenzo Da Ponte was in Prague preparing the production of Mozart's setting of his Don Giovanni, the poet was ordered back to Vienna for a royal wedding for which Salieri's Axur, re d ' Ormus would be performed.

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was originally intended to be performed in honor of Anton and his wife for a visit to Prague on 14 October 1787, as they traveled between Dresden and Vienna, and librettos were printed with dedication to them.

The uncertainty of daily survival has been seen as creating a general mood of morbidity, influencing people to " live for the moment ", as illustrated by Giovanni Boccaccio in The Decameron ( 1353 ).

Lady Fortune with the Wheel of Fortune in a medieval manuscript of a work by Giovanni Boccaccio | Boccaccio ; Consolation of Philosophy was responsible for the popularity of the goddess of Fortune and the wheel of fortune in the Middle Ages

During this period he also wrote librettos for opera seria and served for a time as literary director of the San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice's most distinguished opera house.

* Giovanni Battista Re, Cardinal Bishop of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Bishops

Both Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ) and Giovanni da Verrazzano are reported to have sailed in or near Maritime waters during their voyages of discovery for England and France respectively.

Returning to Italy, the most celebrated doors are those of the Battistero di San Giovanni ( Florence ), which together with the door frames are all in bronze, the borders of the latter being perhaps the most remarkable: the modeling of the figures, birds and foliage of the south doorway, by Andrea Pisano ( 1330 ), and of the east doorway by Ghiberti ( 1425 – 1452 ), are of great beauty ; in the north door ( 1402 – 1424 ) Ghiberti adopted the same scheme of design for the paneling and figure subjects in them as Andrea Pisano, but in the east door the rectangular panels are all filled, with bas-reliefs, in which Scripture subjects are illustrated with innumerable figures, these being probably the gates of Paradise of which Michelangelo speaks.

The libretto, a version of Pierre Beaumarchais ' stage play Le Barbier de Séville, was newly written by Cesare Sterbini and not the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century.

He studied drawing for civil and military architecture under the direction of Giovanni Battista Caporali.

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.

In 1698 Handel played for Frederick I of Prussia and met Giovanni Battista Bononcini in Berlin.

Maybe also that this hilltop dwelling, commissioned by Giovanni de ' Medici, Cosimo il Vecchio's second son, with its view over the city, is the very first example of a Renaissance villa: that is to say it follows the Albertian criteria for rendering a country dwelling a " villa suburbana ".

As such, he called off Lucrezia's previous engagements and arranged for her to marry Giovanni Sforza, a member of the house of Sforza who was Lord of Pesaro and titled Count of Catignola.

Giovanni was offered her dowry in return for his cooperation.

The second bull was kept secret for many years, and Giovanni was assumed to be Cesare's son.

Charlie works for his uncle, Giovanni ( Cesare Danova ), the local caporegime, mostly collecting debts.

He also wrote-off multiple debts including 300 lire that his sister-in-law owed him, and others for the convent of San Giovanni, San Paolo of the Order of Preachers, and a cleric named Friar Benvenuto.