CIGOLI or CIVOLI, LODOVICO CARDI DA 1613 ), Italian painter, architect and poet, was born at Cigoli in Tuscany. Educated under Alessandro Allori and Santi di Tito, he formed a peculiar style by the study at Florence of Michel angelo, Correggio, Andrea del Sarto and Pontormo. While in Florence he painted an "Ecce Homo," in competition with Passig nani and Caravaggio, which gained the prize. This work was after wards taken by Bonaparte to the Louvre, and was restored to Florence in 1815. Other important pictures area "St. Peter Healing the Lame Man," in St. Peter's at Rome; a "Conversion of St. Paul," in the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura, and a "Story of Psyche," in fresco, at the Villa Borghese; a "Martyr dom of Stephen," a "Venus and Satyr," a "Sacrifice of Isaac," and a "Stigmata of St. Francis," at Florence. He died, it Is said, of grief at the failure of his last fresco (in the Roman church of Santa Maria Maggiore).