Ludovico
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Ludovico is an Italian name given to males. It is sometimes spelled Lodovico
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Lodovico
Lodovico is an Italian masculine given name, and may refer to:* Cigoli , Italian painter and architect* Lodovico, Count Corti , Italian diplomat* Lodovico Agostini , Italian composer...
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In religion
- Ludovico BertonioLudovico BertonioLudovico Bertonio was an Italian Jesuit missionary to South America.-Life:He entered the Society of Jesus in 1575. Sent to Peru six years later, he worked principally among the Aymara of southern Peru and of Bolivia.-Work:He wrote on the Aymara language...
(1552–1625), Italian Jesuit missionary - Ludovico of CasoriaLudovico of CasoriaBlessed Ludovico of Casoria, O.F.M., was an Italian Franciscan friar, renowned social reformer and founder of the "Gray Friars of Charity" and the "Gray Sisters of St. Elizabeth".-Life:Born Archangelo Palmentieri, he apprenticed as a cabinet maker in his youth...
(1814–1885), Italian Franciscan monk - Ludovico DonatoLudovico DonatoLudovico Donato was an Italian Franciscan. He became Minister General of his order, of the Rome obedience during the Western Schism, in 1379...
(died c. 1385), Italian cardinal - Vincenzo Ludovico Gotti (1664–1742), Italian cardinal and theologian
- Ludovico Ludovisi (1595–1632), Italian cardinal and statesman
- Ludovico MadruzzoLudovico Madruzzothumb|200px|Portrait of Ludovico Madruzzo by [[Giovanni Battista Moroni]].Art Institute, [[Chicago]].Ludovico Madruzzo was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and statesman, the Imperial crown-cardinal and Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Trento .-Biography:Born in Trento, he was the son of baron...
(1532–1600), Italian cardinal and statesman - Louis MaracciLouis MaracciLouis Maracci was an Italian Catholic priest who translated the Qur'an into Latin in 1698 in Padua. Maracci held that Mohammed and Islam were not very dissimilar to Luther and Protestantism.-Life:...
(1612–1700), Italian priest and translator of the Qur'an into Latin - Ludovico MicaraLudovico MicaraLudovico Micara was an Italian Capuchin and Cardinal. He was born at Frascati. Ordained in 1798, he became Dean of the College of Cardinals....
(1775–1847), Italian cardinal - Ludovico ProdocatorLudovico ProdocatorLudovico Prodocator or Podochatero, Podocatharo, Podocatharus, Podacatharus, Podocathro was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was bishop of Capacio....
(died 1504), Italian cardinal - Ludovico SabbatiniLudovico SabbatiniVenerable Ludovico Sabbatini was an Italian priest and religious educator, who was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1765...
(1650–1724), Italian priest and religious educator
In arts and humanities
- Ludovico AriostoLudovico AriostoLudovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso . The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions...
(1474–1533), Italian poet - Ludovico BailleLudovico BailleLudovico Baille Having graduated in law from the Reale Università di Cagliari he was appointed in 1786 to the Ministry of the Spanish government at Turin, but his chief interest was in tracking down in archives and libraries the materials that would serve him for a planned history of his native...
(1764–1839), Italian historian - Ludovico BarassiLudovico BarassiLudovico Barassi was an Italian jurist and one of Italy's leading authorities on civil law in the first half of the 20th century....
(1873–1953), Italian jurist - Giovanni Ludovico BianconiGiovanni Ludovico BianconiGiovanni Ludovico Bianconi , was an Italian doctor and antiquarian, a multi-facetted scholar who was mentor and correspondent of the connoisseur and early art historian, Johann Joachim Winckelmann...
(1717–1781), Italian doctor and antiquarian - Carlo Ludovico BragagliaCarlo Ludovico BragagliaCarlo Ludovico Bragaglia was an Italian film director whose career spanned from the 1930s to the mid 1960s. He mainly directed adventure pictures and popular comedies, including some starring Totò...
(1894–1998), Italian film director - Ludovico BreaLudovico BreaLudovico Brea was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in and near Genoa.Brea was born into a family of coopers in Nice, and later moving to Liguria, he painted numerous altarpieces that displayed both Lombardy and Flemish influences...
(c. 1450–c. 1523), Italian painter - Ludovico di Breme (1780–1820), Italian writer
- Ludovico ButiLudovico ButiLudovico Buti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Florence.Belonging to the late-Mannerist period, he worked along with more famous figures as Alessandro Allori, Bernardino Poccetti or Santi di Tito on large projects, including the decoration of certain ceilings of the Uffizi and the Grand...
(c. 1560–after 1611), Italian painter - Ludovico CarracciLudovico CarracciLudovico Carracci was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna....
(1555–1619), Italian painter, etcher, and printmaker - Ludovico EinaudiLudovico EinaudiLudovico Einaudi OMRI is an Italian contemporary music composer and pianist.-Biography:Born in Turin, Italy, Einaudi's mother played to him on the piano as a child. He began his musical training at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, gaining a diploma in composition in 1982...
(born 1955), Italian pianist and composer - Ludovico GeymonatLudovico GeymonatLudovico Geymonat was an Italian Marxist philosopher, who gave an original turn to dialectical materialism....
(1908–1991), Italian Marxist philosopher - Ludovico GimignaniLudovico GimignaniLudovico Gimignani was an Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period.Ludovico's father, Giacinto had been one of the main pupils emerging from the loose "studio" of painters working for Pietro da Cortona and who also received patronage from his fellow Pistoia native, the...
(1643–1697), Italian painter - Ludovico LanaLudovico LanaLudovico Lana was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Modena, where he died in 1646. He is also known as Lodovico Lana. He was the director of the Accademia Ducale of Modena. He is said to have been born in Codigoro to a Ferrarese merchant, whose family was originally from...
(c. 1597–1646), Italian painter - Ludovico LippariniLudovico LippariniLudovico Lipparini was an Italian painter. He was born at Bologna, and was instructed in that city, where he brought himself into notice at the age of fifteen. In 1820 he was at Rome and Naples, and in 1822. and again in 1825, at Venice, where he became Professor at the Accademia in 1838, and...
(1800–1856), Italian painter - Ludovico de LuigiLudovico de luigiLudovico de Luigi is a contemporary Italian sculptor and painter living in Venice.-Career:De Luigi first exhibition was in 1965 with his one-man show at the Gallery ‘Il Canale’ in Venice which included two large works, views of a decaying and monumental Venice invaded by waves of insects and other...
(born 1933), Italian sculptor and painter - Ludovico MazzantiLudovico MazzantiLudovico Mazzanti was an Italian painter.-External links:*http://www.artnet.com/artist/649656/ludovico-mazzanti.html...
(1686–1775), Italian painter - Ludovico MazzolinoLudovico MazzolinoLudovico Mazzolino - also known as Mazzolini da Ferrara, Lodovico Ferraresa, and Il Ferrarese - was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Ferrara and Bologna.-Biography:...
(1480–c. 1528), Italian painter - Ludovico Antonio MuratoriLudovico Antonio MuratoriLudovico Antonio Muratori was an Italian historian, notable as a leading scholar of his age, and for his discovery of the Muratorian fragment, the earliest known list of New Testament books....
(1672–1750), Italian historian - Ludovico PasqualiLudovico PasqualiLudovico Pasquali was an Italian author, from Cattaro in the Albania Veneta .-Life:...
, (c. 1500–1551), Italian writer - Caelius RhodiginusCaelius RhodiginusCaelius Rhodiginus was a Venetian writer, and professor in Greek and Latin.His original name was Ludovico or Lodovico Celio Ricchieri. He took the name Rhodiginus from his birthplace, Rovigo. He studied at Ferrara and Padua. He was a professor in Greek and Latin at Rovigo from 1491-9, and again...
(c. 1450–1525), Venetian writer - Ludovico RoncalliLudovico RoncalliCount Ludovico Roncalli , or simply Count Ludovico, was an Italian nobleman who published a collection of suites for five-course baroque guitar, Capricci armonici sopra la chitarra spagnola , in 1692. This was transcribed to modern notation and arranged for the six-string guitar by Oscar...
(1654–1713), Italian nobleman and composer - Ludovico Rusconi SassiLudovico Rusconi SassiLudovico Rusconi Sassi was an Italian architect of the Rococo period.-Biography and principal works:Born in Rome, he was inducted in 1702 to the Academy of Saint Luke....
(1678–1736), Italian architect
In aristrocracy
- Louis, Duke of SavoyLouis, Duke of SavoyLouis I was Duke of Savoy from 1440 until his death.-Life:...
(c. 1412–1465), Duke of Savoy - Luigi AlidosiLuigi AlidosiLuigi Alidosi was the lord of Imola from 1391 until 1424, the last ruler of the city from his family. He was the son of Bertrando Alidosi....
(before 1391–1430), ruler of Imola - Louis Gonzaga, Duke of NeversLouis Gonzaga, Duke of NeversLouis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers was an Italian-French dignitary and diplomat in France. He was the third child of Frederick II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Margaret Palaeologina.-Life account:...
(1539–1595), Italian-French dignitary, diplomat, and Duke of Nevers - Ludovico II Gonzaga (1412–1478), ruler of Mantua, Italy
- Ludovico ManinLudovico ManinLudovico Manin was the last Doge of Venice. He governed Venice from 9 March 1789 until 1797, when he was forced to abdicate by Napoleon Bonaparte.-Early life:...
(1725–1802), Doge of Venice - Giovanni Ludovico of SaluzzoGiovanni Ludovico of SaluzzoGiovanni Ludovico of Saluzzo was marquess of Saluzzo in 1528-1529.The second eldest son of Ludovico II of Saluzzo and Margaret of Foix-Candale, he was imprisoned by his mother Marguerite of Foix when, during the Italian Wars, he sided for Emperor Charles V Giovanni Ludovico of Saluzzo (also...
(c. 1496–1563), marquess of Saluzzo - Ludovico I of SaluzzoLudovico I of SaluzzoLudovico I del Vasto was Marquess of Saluzzo from 1416 until his death.The son of Marquess Thomas III, he held the Marquisate of Saluzzo for much of the 15th century, under its period of greatest splendour...
(before 1416–died 1475), marquess of Saluzzo - Ludovico II of SaluzzoLudovico II of SaluzzoLudovico II del Vasto was marquess of Saluzzo from 1475 until his death. Before his accession ar marquis he held the title of Count of Carmagnola....
(1438–1504), Count of Carmagnola and marquess of Saluzzo - Ludovico SforzaLudovico SforzaLudovico Sforza , was Duke of Milan from 1489 until his death. A member of the Sforza family, he was the fourth son of Francesco Sforza. He was famed as a patron of Leonardo da Vinci and other artists, and presided over the final and most productive stage of the Milanese Renaissance...
(1452-1508), member of the Sforza dynasty of the Duchy of Milan - Ludovico TrasiLudovico TrasiLudovico Trasi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born and active in Ascoli Piceno. He was, along with Carlo Maratta, a pupil of Andrea Sacchi. He painted a S. Niccolo for the church of S. Cristoforo in Ascoli Piceno.-References:...
(1634–1694), Italian painter - Ludovico di VarthemaLudovico di VarthemaLudovico di Varthema, also known as Barthema and Vertomannus was an Italian traveller and diarist, known for being the first non-Muslim European to enter Mecca as a pilgrim...
(c. 1470–1517), Italian traveller and writer - Ludovico Vicentino degli ArrighiLudovico Vicentino degli ArrighiLudovico Vicentino degli Arrighi was a papal scribe, and type designer in Renaissance Italy.Very little is known of the circumstances of his life. He may have started his career as a writing master in Venice, although this has been disputed....
(1475–1527), papal scribe and type designer
In sports
- Ludovico BidoglioLudovico BidoglioLudovico Bidoglio was an Argentine football defender, and one of Boca Juniors' idols."Vico" made his debut with Sportivo Palermo in 1916, playing as a forward...
(1900–1970), Argentinian footballer - Ludovico MoresiLudovico MoresiLudovico Moresi is an Italian football midfielder who will move to AC Lugano in the summer of 2008.-External links:*...
(born 1980), Italian footballer - Ludovico ScarfiottiLudovico ScarfiottiLudovico Scarfiotti was a Formula One and sports car driver from Italy. Just prior to entering Formula One, he won the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans for Ferrari. He later participated in 12 World Championship Formula One grands prix, and many non-championship races. He won one World Championship...
(1933–1968), Italian sports car driver
In other fields
- Ludovico Chigi Albani della RovereLudovico Chigi Albani della RovereFra' Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere was the 76th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1931 to 1951....
(1866–1951), Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta - Pedro LudovicoPedro LudovicoPedro Ludovico was the founder of Goiânia, Brazil, and one of the most important figures in the history of the state of Goiás....
(1891–1979), founder of Goiânia, Brazil - Ludovico RacanielloLudovico RacanielloLudovico Racaniello was an Italian condottiero active in Tuscany.-Biography:Ludovico was born in Todi, the first child of Riccardo, and a descendant of the Racaniello family of Umbrian origin....
(1352–1441), Italian condottiero
Other uses
- The fictional Ludovico techniqueLudovico techniqueThe Ludovico technique is a fictional aversion therapy from the novel A Clockwork Orange administered by Dr. Brodsky with the approval of the UK Minister of the Interior. It involved forcing a patient to watch, through the use of specula to hold the eyes open, violent images for long periods of...
of psychological conditioning from the novel and film A Clockwork Orange - Ludovico Technique LLCLudovico Technique LLCLudovico Technique LLC is an art and entertainment production company which produces a variety of media, from feature films, to comic books. Their name comes from the Ludovico technique, a fictitious brainwashing technique from both the novel and the film A Clockwork Orange.Robert Meyer Burnett,...
, an art and entertainment production company