| VICO | Italian philosopher Giovanni Battista ___ |
| TIEPOLO | Giovanni Battista ___, Italian painter (7) |
| DONATI | Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista ___, after whom a comet is named |
| VIOTTI | Giovanni Battista ___, Italian composer of twenty-nine violin concertos who died in 1824 (6) |
| PIRANESI | Giovanni Battista ___, 18th-century etcher whose works include Imaginary Prisons (8) |
| PERGOLESI | Giovanni Battista ?, Italian composer of 1733 opera The Proud Prisoner (9) |
| ORTOLANO | Italian Renaissance painter born Giovanni Battista Benvenuti who works include Saint Sebastian with Saint Roch and Saint Demetrius |
| PIRELLI | Giovanni Battista, Italian who founded a rubber manufacturing company in Milan in 1872 (7) |
| OPERABUFFA | Italian comic opera such as La serva padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (5,5) |
| VENTURI | Giovanni Battista ___, Italian physicist who gave his name to an effect he observed in fluid pressure (7) |
| LEON | ___ Battista Alberti, Renaissance architect and scholar |
| ALBERTI | Leon Battista --, Italian Renaissance architect (7) |
| GENOAN | Leon Battista Alberti, for one |
| FARINA | Battista, Italian car designer associated with classic designs for Ferrari, etc. (6) |
| ANEMOMETER | Wind gauge, said to have been invented by Leon Battista Alberti in 1450 (10) |
| ERROR | "An ___ doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it": Orlando Aloysius Battista (5) |
| OPERA | Mozart's "Don Giovanni," for one |
| SONNO | Sleep for Giovanni |
| CAPECODBAY | Giovanni da Verrazano discovery of 1524 |
| INNOCENT | Blameless as Giovanni Lotario de' Conti? |
