Famous People with Name Battista

Battista Agnese            Origin/Culture/Country: Genoa

Battista Agnese: was a cartographer from Genoa, who worked in Venice.In 1525 he prepared an early map of Muscovy that was based on the geographical data, narrated to Paolo Giovio by the Russian ambassador Dmitry Gerasimov.His workshop produced at least 71 manuscript atlases of sea charts between 1534 and 1564, more cheaply than Dieppe maps but still considered of fine craftsmanship. The charts normally included latitude but not longitude, along with various decorative features.

Giovanni Battista            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giovanni Battista: was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist. A critic of modern rationalism and apologist of classical antiquity, Vico's magnum opus is titled "Principles/Origins of [re]New[ed] Science about the Common Nature of Nations" (Principi di S

Giovanni Giuda Giona Battista            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Giovanni Giuda Giona Battista: was a convert from Judaism to Catholicism and agent for the king of Poland.[1] His original name was Jehuda Jona Ben-Isaac.As a Jewish rabbi he undertook an extensive journey through Europe, and it was during his stay in Poland that he was converted to Catholicism. After his conversion he was sent by the King of Poland on a mission to Constantinople, where he was arrested as a spy, and narrowly escaped with his life though the intervention of the ambassador of Venice. Later he went to Italy, where he taught Hebrew and Aramaic at the Academy of Pisa and then at the Propaganda at Rome. Among his pupils was Giulio Bartolocci, who is indebted to his learned master for the idea and plan of his famous work Bibliotheca Magana Rabbinica. Battista's principal work was the translation of the Gospels from Latin into Hebrew, published, with a preface by Clement IX, at Rome, 1668.