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The use of obviously Italian names on those who obviously aren't Italian...
Okay so I work at a bookstore and publishing houses send us advance reader copies of books and one we got that I'm currently in love with is The Last Cato by Matilde Asensi (it's being hyped as a "Da Vinci" type book but it's so much more than that and SO much BETTER! Which surprised me! It's a lot more believable too which I really like).Anyhoo, the main characters are Dr. (Sister) Ottavia Salina, Captain Kaspar Glauser-Roist and Professor Farag Boswell. One of the things I've fallen in love with in this book (aside from the story, lol) are the names! All the beautiful Italian names which has just renewed my love of the country, language and culture of Italy. I went through a few years where I loved them but people were like "you could never use that name! It's too Italian! You don't look at all Italian!"Could this be a problem - well, not exactly problem but would it really raise a lot of eyebrows? Keep in mind, I'd probably be living in Britain or New England USA so if possible, would some of these names just be too odd?Some of my favorites from the book:Doria
Lucia
Giacoma
Rosalia
Livia
Filippa
Ottavia
Agueda
Salvatore
Dante
DomenicoRandom Italian names that I like: (my taste in Italian names is... a bit more dramatic and broad than my taste is "common" (or whatever you'd say) names)Bianca
Eloisa
Fiammetta
Cosima
Gaetana
Alessandra
Elena
Eliana
Giachetta
Giada
Gianna / Giovanna
Ginevra
Filomena
Giosetta
Orlanda
Viviana
Orsina
Ilaria
Liana
Noelia
Raimonda
Noemi
Pia
Oriana
Vincenza
Viola
Vittoria
Romola
Serafina
Simona
Sebastiana
Isidora
PaolaGaetano
Orlando
Vincente / Vincenzo
Raimondo
Sebastiano
Romolo
Remo
Vittorio
Orsino
Pio
Prospero
Paolo
Ottavio
Antonio
Luca
Nicodemo
Alessandro
Gustavo
Jacopo
Ilario
Gioachino
Francesco
"Chan eil tuil air nach tig traoghadh"
"Maybe surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh I miss you, you know"

- 'Home', Michael Buble
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The use of obviously Italian names on those who obviously aren't Italian...  ·  Briallen  ·  3/24/2006, 8:00 PM