Jucundus

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Jucundus (variants include Giocondo, Iocundus, Iucundus, Jocund, Jucundus, Jukund), is a given name or surname of several people and of different Christian saints. It may refer to:

Saints

• Saint Giocondiano (3rd century), martyr in Africa. His feast is celebrated on 4 July
• Saint Jucunda (4th century – 466). His feast is celebrated on 25 November
• Saint Jucunda, martyr in Nicomedia. His feast is celebrated on 27 July
• Saint Jucundus (3rd century – 250), martyr in Africa. His feast is celebrated on 9 January
• Saint Jucundus of Aosta (Italian: San Giocondo di Aosta; 4th century – c. 407), bishop of Aosta, Ursus of Aosta served as his archdeacon. A companion of Gratus of Aosta to the Holy Land, he was killed with Saint Nicasius at Rheims in the fifth century. His feast day is celebrated on 30 December
• Saint Jucundus (or Iocundus) of Bologna (Italian: San Giocondo di Bologna; c. 5th century), bishop of Bologna. His feast day is celebrated on 14 November
• Saint Jucundus of Sirmium (4th century), martyr in Pannonia. His feast is celebrated on 6 January
• Saint Jucundus of Troyes (3rd century – 273), martyr in Troyes. His feast is celebrated on 21 July

People

• Francesco del Giocondo (1465–15th or 16th century), Florentine silk merchant, politician, and patron of the Arts.
• Gioconda Belli (born 1948), Nicaraguan author, novelist, and poet
• Gioconda de Vito (1907–1994), Italian-British classical violinist
• Giocondo Albertolli (1743–1839), Swiss-born architect, painter, and sculptor who was active in Italy
• Giovanni Giocondo (Friar Giovanni Giocondo, O.F.M.; c. 1433 – 1515), Italian friar, architect, antiquary, archaeologist, and classical scholar
• Joyce Lussu (born Gioconda Beatrice Salvadori Paleotti; 1912 - 1998), Italian writer, translator, and partisan
• Lisa del Giocondo (also known as Lisa Gherardini, Lisa di Antonio Maria (or Antonmaria) Gherardini and Mona Lisa; 1479–1542 or c. 1551), a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany in Italy

Art

• Gioconda's Smile (1965), an album by Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis
• La Gioconda (opera) (1876), an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, tyran de Padoue, a play in prose by Victor Hugo
• Mona Lisa (The Mona Lisa, La Gioconda, La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo; c. 1503–1519), half-length portrait of a woman by Leonardo da Vinci.

See also

• Happiness
• La Gioconda (disambiguation)