Ludovico () is an Italian masculine given name. It is sometimes spelled Lodovico. The feminine equivalent is Ludovica.
Persons with the name Ludovico
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Ludovico D'Aragona
Ludovico D'Aragona (23 May 1876 – 17 June 1961) was an Italian socialist politician who held several government posts. He also served at the Italian Parliament and Senate.
Biography
D'Aragona was born in Cernusco sul Naviglio, Milan, on 23 May ...
(1876–1961), Italian socialist politician
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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 ...
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
* Ludovico Balbi (1540–1604), Italian composer
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Ludovico Barassi Ludovico Barassi (1873 – 1956) was an Italian jurist and one of Italy's leading authorities on civil law in the first half of the 20th century.
After studies in Pavia and Berlin, he assumed a professorship in Perugia in 1900 and later in Genoa, ...
(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 souther ...
(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
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Ludovico di Breme Ludovico di Breme (Turin, 1780 – Turin, 15 August 1820), whose complete name was Ludovico Arborio Gattinara dei Marchesi di Breme, was an Italian writer and thinker, as well as a contributor to Milan's principal romantic journal, ''Il Conciliatore ...
(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, Frà ra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated north ...
, 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
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Ludovico Carracci
Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light th ...
(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 Friars ...
(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.
Biography
He painted for the church of Santa Maria Assunta and San Giacomo of Soncino, for the pari ...
(fl. 1648-1657), Italian painter
* Ludovico David (born 1648), Italian painter
* Ludovico Donato (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
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Ludovico Fremont
Ludovico Fremont (born 26 September 1982) is an Italian actor.
Biography
From 1992 to 1994 he studied acting at the Nazarene College in Rome, then attended the National Academy of Dramatic Art Silvio D'Amico graduated in 2004. Also in 2004, ta ...
(1982), Italian actor
* Ludovico Furconio, 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
* Ludovico Giamagna (1594–1634), Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Ston
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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:
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Ludovico I Gonzaga
Ludovico I Gonzaga (1268 – 18 January 1360) was an Italian lord, the founder of the Gonzaga family who was the first capitano del popolo of Mantua and imperial vicar.
Biography
Born in Mantua, he was the son of Guido Corradi and the grandson o ...
(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 administering ...
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Ludovico II Gonzaga
Ludovico II Gonzaga (1334 – 4 October 1382) was an Italian politician who was capitano del popolo of Mantua. He was a member of the House of Gonzaga.
Biography
He was the son of Guido Gonzaga and Beatrix of Bar. Together with his brother Franc ...
(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 and ...
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 bo ...
(c. 1597–1646), Italian painter
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Ludovico Lipparini
Lodovico Lipparini (February 17, 1800 – March 19, 1856) was an Italian painter.
Biography
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 in Rome and Naples, ...
(1800–1856), Italian painter
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Ludovico Ludovisi
Ludovico Ludovisi (22 or 27 October 1595 – 18 November 1632) was an Italian Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal and statesman of the Roman Catholic Church. He was an art connoisseur who formed a famous collection of antiquities, housed at the ...
(1595–1632), Italian cardinal and statesman
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Ludovico de Luigi
Ludovico De Luigi (born 11 November 1933) is a contemporary Italian sculptor and painter born and living in Venice, Italy.
Career
De Luigi's first exhibition was in 1965 with his one-man show at the Gallery "Il Canale" in Venice which included ...
(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, Venetian nobility, patrician, and the List of Doges of Venice, 120th and last Doge of Venice. He governed the Venetian Republic from 9 March 1789 until its ...
(1725–1802), Doge of Venice
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Ludovico Mazzanti
''Judith and Holofernes'' 1740, Collection Motais de Narbonne
Ludovico Mazzanti (5 December 1686, in Orvieto – 29 August 1775, in Viterbo) was an Italian painter. He was a follower of the school of Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as Baciccio (d ...
(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
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Ludovico Micara
Ludovico MicaraLodovico Micara, Ludovico da Frascati. (12 October 1775 – 24 May 1847) was an Italian Capuchin and Cardinal. He was born at Frascati, in the Papal States. Ordained in 1798, he became Dean of the College of Cardinals in 1824.
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(1775–1847), Italian cardinal
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Ludovico Moresi
Ludovico Moresi (born 24 May 1980) is an Italian football (soccer), football midfielder who will move to AC Lugano in the summer of 2008.
External linksfootball.ch profile
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Living people
Italian footballers
FC Lugano players
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(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
Born ...
(1672–1750), Italian historian
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Ludovico Nitoglia
Ludovico Maria Nitoglia (born 27 October 1983) is an Italian former rugby union player. He played as a Wing.
With Calvisano, Nitoglia won two Italian rugby championships in 2005 and 2008. He plays for Benetton Treviso in the Pro14, since 201 ...
(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 friend ...
Lodovico Rocca
Lodovico Rocca (29 November 1895, Turin – 24 June 1986, Turin) was an Italian composer.
A pupil of Giacomo Orefice, his operas, written in late verismo style, met with some success in Italy but have been little performed elsewhere. They include; ...
(1895–1986), Italian composer
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Ludovico Roncalli
Count Ludovico Giuseppe Antonio Filippo Roncalli, or simply Count Ludovico (1654–1713), was an Italian composer.
Roncalli was born in Bergamo on 6 March 1654 and baptized at the church of San Pancrazio in the Città Alta in Bergamo on 8 June 16 ...
(1654–1713), Italian nobleman and composer
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Ludovico Rusconi Sassi
Ludovico Rusconi Sassi (28 February 1678 – 18 August 1736) 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.
Ludovico Rusconi is known to have worke ...
(1678–1736), Italian architect
* Ludovico Sabbatini (1650–1724), Italian priest and religious educator
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Ludovico I of Saluzzo
Ludovico I del Vasto (died 1475) 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. Always in good relationshi ...
(c. 1416–1475), marquess of Saluzzo
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Ludovico II of Saluzzo
Ludovico II del Vasto (23 March 1438 in Saluzzo – 27 January 1504) was marquess of Saluzzo from 1475 until his death. Before his accession as marquis he held the title of Count of Carmagnola.
Biography
Ludovico was the son of Ludovico I of ...
(1438–1504), Count of Carmagnola and marquess of Saluzzo
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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 Fo ...
(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, a ...
(1475–1527), papal scribe and type designer
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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 ...