No way am I even remotely qualified to express an opinion, but just to get the ball rolling, and to ring the changes on your list, the ones that stick in my mind from '70s peloton pictures are: Celeste Blue Bianchi, Brooklyn Blue Gios, and Black'n'White SCIC Bottecchia.
Just as in the UK, the person who gets their name splashed across the tubes is seldom the craftsman who joined those tubes together. Someone was making this point in a thread recently...
Is any name, whether that of the brand or the individual craftsman, an ironclad guarantee of quality? I don't know. I guess what you're after is the name associated with the most consistently high quality framebuilding?