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 (given name), Louis or Ludwig (given name), Ludwig. As of 2021, it was among the ten most popular names for n ...
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'', describ ...
Ludovico Baille Ludovico Baille (Cagliari February 3, 1764 – Cagliari March 14, 1839) was a Sardinian lawyer and historian.
Having graduated in law from the Reale Università di Cagliari he was appointed in 1786 to the Ministry of the Spanish government at 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 Regu ...
(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 people, Aym ...
(1552–1625), Italian Jesuit missionary
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Ludovico Bidoglio
Ludovico Bidoglio, sometimes nicknamed ''Vico'' (5 February 1900 – 25 December 1970) was an Argentina, Argentine association football, football player, and one of Boca Juniors' idols during the 1920s. His position on the field was defender (ass ...
(1900–1970), Argentinian footballer
* Ludovico Brea (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 Conciliat ...
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 th ...
(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 from Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering li ...
Ludovico Einaudi
Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI (; born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Milan Conservatory, Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, later incorporating other styles ...
(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 Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, National Academy of Dramatic ...
(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
Pope Clement VII (; ; born Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici; 2 ...
, 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
* Ludovico Geymonat (1908–1991), Italian Marxist philosopher
* Ludovico Giamagna (1594–1634), Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Ston
* Ludovico Gimignani (1643–1697), Italian painter
* Ludovico Gonzaga (disambiguation), 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 () 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 the Holy Roman E ...
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) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (Catholicism) ...
(1532–1600), Italian cardinal and statesman
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Ludovico Manin
Lodovico 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 ...
Ludovico Antonio Muratori
Lodovico Antonio Muratori (21 October 1672 – 23 January 1750), commonly referred to in Latin as Muratorius, was an Italian Catholic priest, notable as historian and a leading scholar of his age, and for his discovery of the Muratorian fragmen ...
(1672–1750), Italian historian
* Ludovico Nitoglia (born 1983), Italian rugby union player
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Ludovico Pasquali
Ludovico Pasquali (c. 1500 – 1551) was a poet in the Italian and Latin languages from Cattaro in modern Montenegro, then ruled by the Republic of Venice.
Life
Pasquali was born and died in Kotor, in the Albania Veneta (today in Montenegro). He ...
, (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 st ...
Ludovico Sabbatini
Ludovico Sabbatini (30 August 1650 – 11 June 1724) was an Italian priest and religious educator, who was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1765. He is venerated on 11 June, the day of his death.
Life
Born in Naples, Italy, to a deeply r ...
(1650–1724), Italian priest and religious educator
* Ludovico I of Saluzzo (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 Sal ...
(1438–1504), Count of Carmagnola and marquess of Saluzzo
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Ludovico Scarfiotti
Ludovico Scarfiotti (18 October 1933 – 8 June 1968) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from to . Scarfiotti won the 1966 Italian Grand Prix with Ferrari. In endurance racing, Scarfiotti won the 24 Hours of Le Mans and ...
(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'), and called the "arbiter of Italy" by historian Francesco 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 Tommasi, Angiolo and his cousin Adolfo Tommasi, Adolfo, Ludovico Tommasi devoted himself to painting, d ...
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 (bishop, born 1533) (1533–1583), Roman Catholic archbishop
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Ludovico Trasi
Ludovico Trasi (1634–February 20, 1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born and active in Ascoli Piceno.
Trasi was born to a little known painter, Antonio Trasi, who sent his son to study abroad.
Contemporarily with his life ...
(1634–1694), Italian painter
* Ludovico Trevisan (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 Hajj, pilgrim. Nearly everything that is ...
(c. 1470–1517), Italian traveller and writer
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Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi
Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi (1475?–1527?) was a papal scribe and type designer in Renaissance Italy.
Very little is known of the circumstances of his life. He was born in Cornedo Vicentino. He may have started his career as a writing mas ...
(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), ''Neural'' magazine since 1993. He received his Ph.D. degree in English and Media from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (UK). He is Associate Prof ...
(born 1969), artist, media critic and magazine editor in chief
* Pedro Ludovico (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 on March 17, 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Ale ...
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 album by Şanışer