Giovanni De Santis (Naples, Kingdom of Naples? 18th century - ?) was an Italian violin virtuoso and composer. There is no biography of him and the little, if any information available can be gleaned from the title pages of the introductions to instrumental collections published in Venice and Amsterdam between 1730 and 1735; here we learn circumstantial information that the violinist and composer was a "Neapolitan" and that he therefore probably owed the tribute of his education and the influence...