Ludovico () is an Italian masculine given name. It is sometimes spelled Lodovico. The feminine equivalent is
Ludovica
Ludovica or Ludovika or Ludowika is a feminine given name, a counterpart of the masculine names Ludovic or Ludovico and the related Louis or Ludwig. As of 2021, it was among the ten most popular names for newborn girls in Italy. https://www.ist ...
Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariosto (; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic ''Orlando Furioso'' (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's ''Orlando Innamorato'', describes the ...
(1474–1533), Italian poet
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Ludovico Avio
Ludovico Héctor Avio (6 October 1932 – 23 June 1996) was an Argentine football forward who played for Argentina in the 1958 FIFA World Cup.Ludovico Baille Ludovico Baille (Cagliari February 3, 1764 – Cagliari March 14, 1839)
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 t ...
(1764–1839), Italian historian
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Ludovico Balbi
Ludovico Balbi (c. 1545 – 1604) was a Venetian singer and composer, and conductor. He was a pupil of Costanzo Porta and a choirmaster at Padua. Among his compositions are masses, motets, canzoni, madrigals, and others. Surviving compositions ...
(1540–1604), Italian composer
* Ludovico Barassi (1873–1953), Italian jurist
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Ludovico Barbo
Ludovico Barbo, O.S.B. (1381–1443), also referred to as Luigi Barbo, was a significant figure in the movement to reform monastic life in northern Italy during the 15th century. Originally a canon of the community which became the Canons Regul ...
(1381–1443), Italian monastic life reformer
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Ludovico Bertonio
Ludovico Bertonio (1552 in Rocca Contrada – 3 August 1625 in Lima) 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 southe ...
(1552–1625), Italian Jesuit missionary
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Ludovico Bidoglio
Ludovico Bidoglio, sometimes nicknamed ''Vico'' (5 February 1900 – 25 December 1970) was an Argentine football player, and one of Boca Juniors' idols during the 1920s. His position on the field was right back.
Due his elegant style, precise ...
(1900–1970), Argentinian footballer
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Ludovico Brea
Ludovico (or Louis) Brea (c. 1450 – c. 1523) 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 display ...
(c. 1450–c. 1523), Italian painter
* Ludovico di Breme (1780–1820), Italian writer
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Ludovico Ottavio Burnacini
Lodovico Ottavio Burnacini (1636 – 12 December 1707) was an Italian architect, and theatrical stage and costume designer, who served the imperial court in Vienna beginning in 1652. He is considered one of the most important "theater engineers" ...
(1636–1707), Italian architect and stage designer
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Ludovico Buti
Ludovico Buti (c. 1560 - after 1611) 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 projec ...
(c. 1560–after 1611), Italian painter
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Ludovico Camangi
Ludovico Camangi (14 February 1903, Sora, Lazio – 2 September 1976) was an Italian politician. He represented the Italian Republican Party in the Constituent Assembly of Italy from 1946 to 1948 and in the Chamber of Deputies
The chamber of dep ...
(1903–1976), Italian politician
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Lodovico Campalastro
Lodovico Campalastro was an Italian painter, born and active in Ferrara
Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated nor ...
, Italian painter
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Ludovico di Caporiacco
Ludovico di Caporiacco (22 January 1900, in Udine – 18 July 1951, in Parma) was an Italian arachnologist.
Caporiacco took part in an expedition to the Jebel Uweinat, a mountain massif in the boundary region of Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. On the mi ...
(1901–1951), Italian arachnologist
* Ludovico Carracci (1555–1619), Italian painter, etcher, and printmaker
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Ludovico of Casoria
Ludovico da Casoria (; 11 March 1814 – 30 March 1885) - born Arcangelo Palmentieri - was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor. He was a renowned social reformer who founded both the Grey Friar ...
(1814–1885), Italian Franciscan friar
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Ludovico Cavaleri
Ludovico Cavaleri (1867–1942) was an Italian painter.
Biography
He was born in Milan. A self-taught member of the school of Lombard Naturalism in its last stages, Cavalieri abandoned his medical studies in 1888 to devote himself exclusively to p ...
(1867–1942), Italian painter
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Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere
Fra' Ludovico Chigi della Rovere-Albani (10 July 1866 – 14 November 1951) was Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1931 to 1951.
Chigi was born in Ariccia, the son of Imperial Prince Mario Chigi della Rovere A ...
(1866–1951), Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
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Ludovico Costa
Ludovico Costa (active 1648–1657) was an Italian painter, active mainly in his native Soncino and nearby towns. He may have trained in Cremona
Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label=Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in nor ...
(fl. 1648-1657), Italian painter
* Ludovico David (born 1648), Italian painter
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Ludovico Donato
Ludovico Donato (died 1385 or 1386) was an Italian Franciscan. He became Minister General of his order, of the Rome obedience during the Western Schism, in 1379. In 1383 he was created a Cardinal, the first ever from Venice.
He was arrested wi ...
(died c. 1385), Italian cardinal
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Ludovico Einaudi
Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI (; born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, later incorporating other styles and genres such as ...
(born 1955), Italian pianist and composer
* Ludovico Fremont (1982), Italian actor
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Ludovico Furconio
Ludovico Furconio was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Giovinazzo (1528–1549).
Biography
On 4 December 1528, Ludovico Furconio was appointed by Pope Clement VII as Bishop of Giovinazzo. He served as Bishop of Giovinazzo unti ...
, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Giovinazzo (1528-1549)
* Ludovico de Filippi (1872–1918), Italian naval officer and a pioneer of Italian aviation
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Ludovico Geymonat
Ludovico Geymonat (May 11, 1908 – November 29, 1991) was an Italian mathematician, philosopher and historian of science. As a philosopher, he mainly dealt with philosophy of science, epistemology and Marxist philosophy, in which he gave an orig ...
(1908–1991), Italian Marxist philosopher
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Ludovico Giamagna
Ludovico Giamagna, O.P. (1594–1634) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Ston (1632–1634).Ludovico Gimignani
Ludovico Gimignani (1643 – 26 June 1697) was an Italian painter, who is mainly known for his altarpieces for churches in Rome.
Biography
Ludovico was born in Rome as the son of the painter Giacinto (1611–1681). His father was one of the mai ...
(1643–1697), Italian painter
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Ludovico Gonzaga (disambiguation) Ludovico Gonzaga (also spelled Lodovico) was the name of several prominent members of the House of Gonzaga:
* Ludovico I Gonzaga (1268–1360), better known as Luigi, the first ''Capitano del Popolo'' ('Captain of the People') of Mantua and Imperi ...
, multiple people, including:
** Ludovico I Gonzaga (1268–1360), better known as Luigi, the first ''Capitano del Popolo'' of Mantua and
Imperial Vicar
An imperial vicar (german: Reichsvikar) was a prince charged with administering all or part of the Holy Roman Empire on behalf of the emperor. Later, an imperial vicar was invariably one of two princes charged by the Golden Bull with administerin ...
** Ludovico II Gonzaga (1334–1382), Italian politician who was ''Capitano del Popolo'' of Mantua
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Ludovico III Gonzaga
Ludovico III Gonzaga of Mantua, also spelled Lodovico (also Ludovico II; 5 June 1412 – 12 June 1478) was the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua from 1444 to his death in 1478.
Biography
Ludovico was the son of Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga an ...
(1412–1478), ruler of Mantua, Italy
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Ludovico Gonzaga (1480-1540) Ludovico Gonzaga (also spelled Lodovico) was the name of several prominent members of the House of Gonzaga:
* Ludovico I Gonzaga (1268–1360), better known as Luigi, the first ''Capitano del Popolo'' ('Captain of the People') of Mantua and Imperia ...
(c. 1480–1540), Italian nobleman and condottiero
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Ludovico Gonzaga-Nevers
Louis de Gonzague, Duke of Nevers ( it, Ludovico, italic=no or Luigi di Gonzaga-Nevers; 18 September 1539 – 23 October 1595) was a soldier, governor and statesman during the French Wars of Religion. Of Italian extraction, his father and b ...
, (1539–1595), Duke of Nevers from 1565
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Ludovico Lana
Ludovico Lana (c. 1597–1646) 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 ...
(c. 1597–1646), Italian painter
* Ludovico Lipparini (1800–1856), Italian painter
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Ludovico Ludovisi
Ludovico Ludovisi (22 or 27 October 1595 – 18 November 1632) was an Italian cardinal and statesman of the Roman Catholic Church. He was an art connoisseur who formed a famous collection of antiquities, housed at the Villa Ludovisi in Rome.
B ...
(1595–1632), Italian cardinal and statesman
* Ludovico de Luigi (born 1933), Italian sculptor and painter
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Ludovico Madruzzo
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Ludovico Madruzzo (1532–1600) ...
(1532–1600), Italian cardinal and statesman
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Ludovico Manin
Ludovico Giovanni Manin (; ; 14 May 1725 – 24 October 1802) was a Venetian politician, patrician, and the 120th and last Doge of Venice. He governed the Venetian Republic from 9 March 1789 until its fall in 1797, when he was forced to ab ...
(1725–1802), Doge of Venice
* Ludovico Mazzanti (1686–1775), Italian painter
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Ludovico Mazzolino
Ludovico Mazzolino (1480 – c. 1528) - also known as Mazzolini da Ferrara, Lodovico Ferraresa, and Il Ferrarese - was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Ferrara and Bologna.
Biography
He was born and died in Ferrara. He appears to have ...
(1480–c. 1528), Italian painter
* Ludovico Micara (1775–1847), Italian cardinal
* Ludovico Moresi (born 1980), Italian footballer
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Ludovico Antonio Muratori
Lodovico Antonio Muratori (21 October 1672 – 23 January 1750) 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.
Biography
Bor ...
(1672–1750), Italian historian
* Ludovico Nitoglia (born 1983), Italian rugby union player
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Ludovico Pasquali
Ludovico Pasquali (c.1500–1551) was an Italian-language author from Cattaro.
Life
Pasquali was born and died in Kotor, in the Albania Veneta (today in Montenegro). He was from an ancient Dalmatian family with roots in Florence. He was a frie ...
, (c. 1500–1551), Italian writer
* Ludovico Prodocator (died 1504), Italian cardinal
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Ludovico Racaniello Ludovico Racaniello (1352–1441) 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.
He dedicated a number of years to the s ...
(1352–1441), Italian condottiero
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Lodovico Rocca
Lodovico Rocca (29 November 1895, Turin – 24 June 1986, Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of t ...
Ludovico Scarfiotti
Ludovico Scarfiotti (18 October 1933 – 8 June 1968) 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 F ...
(1933–1968), Italian sports car driver
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Ludovico Sforza
Ludovico Maria Sforza (; 27 July 1452 – 27 May 1508), also known as Ludovico il Moro (; "the Moor"). "Arbiter of Italy", according to the expression used by Guicciardini,
(1452–1508), member of the Sforza dynasty of the Duchy of Milan
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Ludovico Maria Sinistrari
Ludovico Maria Sinistrari (26 February 1622 – 1701) was an Italian Franciscan priest and author.
Biography
Born in Ameno, Italy, he studied in Pavia and entered the Franciscan Order in 1647. He taught philosophy and theology to students in ...
(1622–1701), Italian Franciscan priest and author
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Ludovico Tommasi
Ludovico Tommasi (1866 in Livorno – 1941 in Florence) was an Italian painter.
Biography
Inspired by the example of his elder brother Angiolo and his cousin Adolfo, Ludovico Tommasi devoted himself to painting, developing his art in close cont ...
(1866–1941), Italian painter
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Ludovico de Torres (disambiguation) Ludovico de Torres may refer to:
*Ludovico de Torres (cardinal)
Ludovico de Torres (1552 – 8 July 1609) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio (1606-1609) and Archbishop of Monreale (1588-1609).
, multiple people, including:
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Ludovico de Torres (cardinal)
Ludovico de Torres (1552 – 8 July 1609) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio (1606-1609) and Archbishop of Monreale (1588-1609).Ludovico de Torres (archbishop) (1533–1583), Roman Catholic archbishop
* Ludovico Trasi (1634–1694), Italian painter
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Ludovico Trevisan
Ludovico Trevisan (November 1401 – March 22, 1465) was an Italian catholic prelate, who was the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, Patriarch of Aquileia and Captain General of the Church. He succeeded his rival Giovanni Vitelleschi, a fellow ...
(1401–1465), Italian catholic prelate
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Ludovico di Varthema
Ludovico di Varthema, also known as Barthema and Vertomannus (c. 1470 – 1517), was an Italian traveller, diarist and aristocrat known for being one of the first non-Muslim Europeans to enter Mecca as a pilgrim. Nearly everything that is known ...
(c. 1470–1517), Italian traveller and writer
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Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi
Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi ( Cornedo Vicentino, 1475?–1527?) 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, ...
(1475–1527), papal scribe and type designer
Surname
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Alessandro Ludovico
Alessandro Ludovico (born 1969) is a researcher, artist and chief editor of ''Neural'' magazine since 1993. He received his Ph.D. degree in English and Media from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (UK). He is Associate Professor at the Winch ...
(born 1969), artist, media critic and magazine editor in chief
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Pedro Ludovico
Pedro Ludovico (23 October 1891 – 16 August 1979) was the founder of Goiânia, Brazil, and one of the most important figures in the history of the state of Goiás.
Ludovico was born in Goiás. He went to Rio de Janeiro where he finished Med ...
(1891–1979), founder of Goiânia, Brazil
Other uses
* The fictional
Ludovico technique
''A Clockwork Orange'' is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates ...
of psychological conditioning from the novel and film ''A Clockwork Orange''
* Ludovico Technique LLC, an art and entertainment production company
* Lodovico, Kinsman to Brabantio, cousin to Desdemona in the play Othello
* A
rap
Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...