TISIO, or Tisi, Benvenuto (1481-1559), commonly called Il Garofalo, a painter of the Ferrarese school. He was born in 1481 at Garofolo, in the Ferrarese territory, and constantly used the gillyflower (garofalo) as a symbol with which to sign his pictures. He took to drawing in childhood, and was put to study under Domenico Panetti (or Laneto), and afterwards at Cremona under his maternal uncle, Niccolo Soriani, a painter of credit, who died in 1499; he also frequented the school of Boccaccio