| PIRANESI | Giovanni Battista -, eighteenth century Italian architect, engraver; in praise (anag.) |
| DELFT | The first of the line-engravers in skilful pottery (5) |
| ASPIRE | Praise (anag.) (6) |
| ALBERTI | Leon Battista, 15th Century Italian architect whose works include part of the facade of the Santa Maria Novella in Florence (7) |
| PIRELLI | Giovanni Battista, Italian who founded a rubber manufacturing company in Milan in 1872 (7) |
| VIOTTI | Giovanni Battista ___, Italian composer of twenty-nine violin concertos who died in 1824 (6) |
| DONATI | Giovanni Battista ?, 19th-century Italian astronomer who pioneered the spectroscopy of comets (6) |
| TIEPOLO | Giovanni Battista, Venetian artist born in 1696 who painted in the Rococo style (7) |
| VENTURI | Giovanni Battista ___, Italian physicist who gave his name to an effect he observed in fluid pressure (7) |
| PERGOLESI | Giovanni Battista ?, Italian composer of 1733 opera The Proud Prisoner (9) |
| OPERABUFFA | Italian comic opera such as La serva padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (5,5) |
| CORELLI | Arcangelo, seventeenth to eighteenth century Italian composer, violinist |
| SCARLATTI | Domenico -, seventeenth to eighteenth century Italian composer |
| CANALETTO | Eighteenth-century Italian artist famed for his paintings of Venice (9) |
| PALLADIO | Andrea -, 16th-century Italian architect whose works include the Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore in Venice (8) |
| VICO | Italian philosopher Giovanni Battista ___ |
| ORTOLANO | Italian Renaissance painter born Giovanni Battista Benvenuti who works include Saint Sebastian with Saint Roch and Saint Demetrius |
| ASPERSION | No praises (anag) - disparaging remark (9) |
| CASANOVA | Giovanni, 18th-century Italian adventurer noted for his Memoires (8) |
| ZOCCHI | Giuseppe ?, 18th-century Italian printmaker and painter whose works include View of the Tiber Looking Towards the Castel Sant"Angelo, with Saint Peter's in the Distance (6) |
