| NESI | Award-winning Italian pianist Giovanni ___ |
| LOREN | Academy, Grammy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning Italian film actress and cookery book writer b |
| SCOLA | Award-winning Italian director of "We All Loved Each Other So Much" (1974): Ettore ___ |
| PIRANDELLO | Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright (10) |
| FELLINI | Oscar-winning Italian director |
| MARCONI | Which Nobel Prize-winning Italian pioneered radio communication? (7) |
| LEONE | 1970s Italian president Giovanni ___ |
| CASANOVA | Giovanni _, great Italian lover (8) |
| LIFEISBEAUTIFUL | 1997 Oscar-winning Italian film starring Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi |
| BARTOLI | Cecilia ___, five-time Grammy-winning Italian opera singer married to Swiss baritone Oliver Widmer since 2011 (7) |
| PAISIELLO | Giovanni ___, Italian composer whose operas include The Barber of Seville and Proserpine (9) |
| CASSINI | Giovanni _; astronomer with a spacecraft named after him (7) |
| RIBISI | Saving Private Ryan and Avatar actor, Giovanni ___ |
| CABOTO | 1497... Giovanni ___ (Navigator aboard The Matthew) |
| BELLINI | Giovanni ___, c1430-1516, Venetian painter (7) |
| TIEPOLO | Italian painter, Giovanni Battista (1696-1770) (7) |
| CANALETTO | Italian painter born Giovanni Antonio Canal in 1697 (9) |
| FIAT | Italian motor manufacturing firm founded by Giovanni Agnelli (4) |
| BERNINI | Giovanni -, seventeenth century Italian artist; bin Reni (anag.) |
| PIRANESI | Giovanni Battista -, eighteenth century Italian architect, engraver; in praise (anag.) |
