List of Famous people named Giacomo
Giacomo Zanella
Giacomo Zanella was an Italian poet.
Giacomo Antonio Perti
Giacomo Antonio Perti was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Bologna, where he was Maestro di Cappella for sixty years. He was the teacher of Giuseppe Torelli and Giovanni Battista Martini.
Giacomo Tritto
Giacomo Domenico Mario Antonio Pasquale Giuseppe Tritto was an Italian composer, known primarily for his fifty-four operas. He was born in Altamura, and studied in Naples; among his teachers were Nicola Fago, Girolamo Abos, and Pasquale Cafaro. Amongst his pupils were the young Vincenzo Bellini around 1821, plus Ferdinando Orlandi. He died in Naples.
Giacomo Sannesio
Giacomo Sannesio was and Italian Catholic cardinal, prominent art collector and patron of early 17th-century artists.
Giacomo Colonna
Giacomo or Jacopo Colonna was a member of a powerful noble family in Rome, and an Italian cardinal.
Giacomo Leoni
Giacomo Leoni, also known as James Leoni, was an Italian architect, born in Venice. He was a devotee of the work of Florentine Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti, who had also been an inspiration for Andrea Palladio. Leoni thus served as a prominent exponent of Palladianism in English architecture, beginning in earnest around 1720. Also loosely referred to as Georgian, this style is rooted in Italian Renaissance architecture.
Giacomo Beltrami
Giacomo Costantino Beltrami was an Italian jurist, author, and explorer, known for claiming to have discovered the headwaters of the Mississippi River in 1823 while on a trip through much of the United States. Beltrami County in Minnesota is named for him. He had an extensive network of notable figures for friends and acquaintances, including members of the powerful Medici family.
Giacomo Cantelmo
Giacomo Cantelmo was a Roman Catholic cardinal from 1690 to 1702.
Giacomo Piccolomini
Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi
Giacomo Maria Radini-Tedeschi was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bergamo. Today he is famous for his strong involvement in social issues at the beginning of 20th century.