| 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) |
| PERGOLESI | Giovanni Battista ___, Italian composer whose best known sacred work is his 1736 Stabat Mater |
| VENTURI | Giovanni Battista ___, Italian physicist who gave his name to an effect he observed in fluid pressure (7) |
| PIRANESI | Giovanni Battista ___, 18th-century etcher whose works include Imaginary Prisons (8) |
| ALBERTI | Leon Battista ___, Renaissance polymath (7) |
| 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) |
| AQUINAS | Influential medieval Italian philosopher and theologian, St Thomas ... |
| BRUNO | Italian philosopher who used Copernican principles (5) |
| GIANNI | Italian philosopher Vattimo |
| CROCE | Italian philosopher: 1866-1952 |
| NICCOLOMACHIAVELLI | Italian philosopher and writer best known for The Prince |
| GIORDANO | Italian philosopher ___ Bruno, whose name was given to a lunar crater |
| GIORDANOBRUNO | Italian philosopher squanders 10 grand on old boxer ... (8,5) |
| FARINA | Battista, Italian car designer associated with classic designs for Ferrari, etc. (6) |
| LEON | ___ Battista Alberti, Renaissance architect and scholar |
