Giovanni Battista Doni

Giovanni Battista Doni
Giovanni Battista Doni
	Portrait, engraving by Gaetano Vascellini (1745-1805) after G. Irabattesi
Born	13 March 1595 ; Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Died	1 December 1647 (aged 52); Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Occupation	Music theorist, musicologist, writer
Employer	University of Florence ;

Giovanni Battista Doni (bap. 13 March 1595 – 1647) was an Italian musicologist and humanist who made an extensive study of ancient music. He is known, among other works, for having renamed the note "Ut" to "Do" in solfège.

In his day, he was a well-known lawyer, classical scholar, critic and musical theorist, and from 1640 to 1647 he occupied the Chair of Eloquence at the University of Florence and was a prominent member of the city's Accademia della Crusca, the premier academic philologic society of Florence and Italy at the time. They had published the first Italian-language dictionary and grammar in 1612.

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