GIOVANNI** (1576–1649), a celebrated Protestant divine and biblical annotator, was born at Geneva, of an Italian family which had fled from Lucca to escape religious persecution. At the recommendation of Beza he was appointed professor of Hebrew when only twenty-one years of age. In 1608 he was appointed parish minister of Geneva, and in 1609 professor of theology. Along with Theodore Tromelin, he was deputed to attend the synod of Dort, and concurred in the condemnation of the Arminians. Besides numerous theological treatises on questions connected with the reformation, Diodati translated the Bible into Italian (1607); and afterwards into French (1644). He also wrote *Annotationes in Bibliam*, which was translated into English in 1648; and translated Paul Sarpi's *History of the Council of Trent*, and Sir Edwin Sandys' *Account of the State of Religion in the West*.