Giovanni Bovio (6 February 1837 – 15 April 1903) was an Italian philosopher and a politician of the Italian Republican Party. Bovio was born in Trani. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy. He wrote a philosophical work in 1864 called Il Verbo Novello. He was involved in setting up the radical movement "" in 1883. In 1895 he founded the Italian Republican Party. A plaque on the house on Piazza Giovanni Bovio number 38 recalls his death in that house: