Gifford, editor of the Anti-Jacobin and afterwards of the Quarterly
Review, in which he attacked Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats. His
satires, the Baviad and the Maviad, had some reputation in their day
(1757-1826)
Gilpin, Rev. Joshua G., rector of Wrockwardine, whose new and corrected
edition of the Pilgrim’s Progress appeared in 1811
Godfrey of Bouillon, a leader of the First Crusade; he took Jerusalem in
1099
Goldoni, “the founder of Italian Comedy” (1707-93), whose pieces
supplanted the older Italian farces and burlesques
Gondomar, Count of, the Spanish ambassador at the court of James I. who
ruined Raleigh, and negotiated the proposed marriage of Charles I. with
the Infanta
Gonsalvo de Cordova, the great captain who took Granada from the Moors,
Zante from the Turks, and Naples from the French (1443-1515)