Castiglione (surname)

Castiglione is an Italian and Jewish (from Italy) habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word, from medieval Latin castellio (genitive castellionis) ‘fortification’, ‘small castle’.^[1] Castiglione may refer to:

People with the surname

• Godffredo da Castiglione, Pope Celestine IV died Rome, 10 November 1241
• Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529), Italian Renaissance writer and diplomat, best known for The Courtier book
• Giovanni Castiglione (1420-1460), Italian bishop and cardinal
• Giovanni Battista Castiglione (1516–1598), Italian tutor to Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth I
• Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609–1664), Italian (Genoese) painter and printmaker
• Giovanni Francesco Mauro Melchiore Salvemini di Castiglione (1704-1791), Italian mathematician
• Giuseppe Castiglione (Jesuit) (1688–1766), Italian painter and Jesuit missionary
• Pierre François Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione (1757–1816), Marshal of France and French general
• Jose Pablo Martinez del Rio-Castiglione (fl. 1859), Italo-Mexican nobleman in the court of Maximilian I of Mexico
• Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione (1837–1899), Italian courtesan and mistress of Napoleon III
• Giuseppe Castiglione (1829–1908), Italian painter
• Joe Castiglione (born 1947), Boston Red Sox radio announcer
• Joe Castiglione (athletic director) (born 1957), at the University of Oklahoma
• Giuseppe Castiglione (politician) (born 1963), Italian politician
• Nancy Castiglione (born 1981), Canadian actress active in the Philippines
• Salvatore Castiglione (1620 – 1676), an Italian painter of the Baroque period

Fictional characters

• Francis "Frank" Castle (born Castiglione), fictional Sicilian-American vigilante called the Punisher from Marvel Comic.

See also

• Castiglioni
• Castigliano

References