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Love:

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Violante
Ginevra
Bianca - My aunt's name.
Amelia (ah-MEH-lyah)
Beatrice (beh-ah-TREE-cheh) - I slightly prefer the English pronuciation
Lavinia
Livia
Ofelia (o-PHEH-lyah)

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Love but would never use:

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Artemide
Demetra
Persefone
Polissena
Armida

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Like but:

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Dafne (DAHF-neh) -I actually prefer Daphne

I like/would use Berenice, Ginevra, Bianca (family name), Rossana, Cloe, Lavinia and Livia.

Greek origin:

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Artemide - Sorry, but I dislike that. Better is Artemis. But it is a name for Godesss.
Demetra - Not much. Demetria or Demétér is much better.
Persefone - Very pretty
Berenice (beh-reh-NEE-cheh) - Nice pronunciation. But I more like Bereniké.
Leuconoe - Better is Leukothéa
Misia (MEE-zee-ah) - That sounds like mission (In Czech mise [mee-seh])
Polissena - Sounds interesting
Licia (LEE-cha) - I don't like Italian pronunciation.. Lee-see-uh
Dafne (DAHF-neh) - Very good!

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Medieval sound

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Violante - Not my style
Ginevra - I like it
Clarice (klah-REE-cheh) - I more prefer Clarisa
Armida - ???
Bianca - I love it!!
Amelia (ah-MEH-lyah) - Very pretty
Beatrice (beh-ah-TREE-cheh) - I more prefer Beatris or Beatrix or Viatrix

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Others

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Sabrina - Is this Italian name?
Rossana - I more like Rosalia or Rosaria.

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Middle names

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Febe - I don't like it.
Cloe (KLOH-eh) - Very pretty
Lelia - I like it
Guia - ???

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Biblical

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Rebecca - Very nice but I more prefer Rebeka
Priscilla - Hmmm

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Ancient Romans

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Lavinia, Livia - I like it
Drusila - Nice for beautiful pagan girl
Marzia - Is it Marcia? Nice
Flaminia
Lucrezia - I like it
Larissa - I more like Lara

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Shakespearian
Ofelia (o-PHEH-lyah) - I like it

I like all of these:
Violante
Ginevra
Clarice - Though I prefer the French Clarisse. We specifically chose this spelling for two reasons: 1) So my Italian relatives wouldn't pronounce the "che" and 2) so the word "rice" wasn't in the name!
Armida
Bianca - One of my favorites
Amelia
Beatrice - much prettier pronounced this way.

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Plus,
Priscilla - a fave
Lavinia - a fave, though I prefer Lovinia
Drusilla - a fave
Larissa

I really like the Italian pronunciation of the -ice names, Berenice and Clarice which I think are hideous pronounced the English/French way. Italian Beatrice is gorgeous (Miss Jean Brodie thought so too :-))

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I also like:

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Persefone
Polissena (from my favourite play and much less clunky than Polyxena)
Dafne (DAHF-neh)
Violante - it kind of makes me laugh as it sounds so much like violent, but I love it!
Livia
Flaminia
Lucrezia

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Sabrina is really an English name!

I like

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Berenice
Dafne
Ginevra
Clarice
Armida
Amelia
Beatrice
Sabrina
Rossana
Cloe
Lavinia
Livia
Marzia
Lucrezia
Ofelia

I like

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Leuconoe
Licia
Dafne
Ginevra
Livia