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Like it, don't love it.

Nice, but I still prefer Victoria or Viktoria. I do however like Vittore better than Victor.
From your list I like:

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Vittoria Beatrice
Vittoria Josephine
Vittoria June
Vittoria Margaret

It's pretty, but not as pretty as Victoria to me.

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I also think Vittoria sounds a bit hodge-podged with any nationality of middle name other than Italian, so let's examine some cognates:

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Vittoria Beatrice -- this is fine, Beatrice is the Italian form! Ka-ching!
Vittoria Cecily -- Vittoria Cecilia
Vittoria Celestine -- Vittoria Celestina
Vittoria Clarice -- Vittoria Clara, Vittoria Chiarina
Vittoria Clemence -- Vittoria Clementina
Vittoria Constance -- Vittoria Costanza, Vittoria Constantia
Vittoria Helen -- Vittoria Elena
Vittoria Josephine -- Vittoria Giuseppina
Vittoria June -- Vittoria Giugnia
Vittoria Judith -- Vittoria Giuditta
Vittoria Lucy -- Vittoria Lucia
Vittoria Margaret (while I do like it as is,) -- Vittoria Margherita

I like it, but I like Victoria more.

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This reminds me of the story of how I chose my daughter's name. Before my husband and I were married, we had decided to name any girl we had Rebecca. It was a name that both he and I liked. But the first Christmas we were married, I asked him to get me Shelley Winters' autobiography. He did, and I read it. She had married an Italian, Vittorio Gassman, and they had a daughter. They named their daughter Vittoria after her father. Later in life, the daughter decided to go by the nickname Tori (not sure of the spelling of that, actually.)

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This made me think of the name Victoria with the nickname Torrie (our spelling.) Of course, I had heard the name Victoria before, but just never really thought about it. I instantly decided that Victoria was a far better name than Rebecca, and that any daughter we had would be named Victoria with the nickname Torrie. And so it came to pass.

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All this by way of saying that upon reading the book, and noticing the name, I instantly anglicized it to Victoria. It never occurred to me to use Vittoria itself. It seemed to me to be too Italian for an American to use.

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Vittoria and Victoria are quite similar in sound, so how could I love Victoria and not like Vittoria? I do like it, but to me, Victoria, just looks a little more beautiful, sounds a little more beautiful, and there is the association with the queen. So I could see using Vittoria if one is Italian, and that is the normal form of the name for one, but otherwise, no.

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I know a Vittoria, I don't know her mn though.

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I love Vittoria Celestine though. It's very pretty.