Which Italian composers influenced George Frideric Handel’s musical style?

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Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music. — George Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel, oil on canvas by Thomas Hudson, c. 1736; in the Foundling Museum, London.

George Frideric Handel’s musical style was significantly shaped by the Italian style he encountered during his travels in Italy in early adulthood. Among the Italian composers who exerted a lasting influence on his work, Arcangelo Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti are specifically noted for their impact, which remained detectable in Handel’s compositions throughout his life.1