Fiordispina

Derived from Italian fiore meaning "flower" combined with Italian di meaning "of" and either Italian spina meaning "thorn" or spino meaning "briar, thornbush".

In literature, this is the name of a young Spanish princess from canto IX (9) of the 15th-century epic poem Orlando innamorato written by the Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441-1494). She later also appears in canto XXV (25) of the 16th-century epic poem Orlando furioso written by the Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533). In both poems, she is hopelessly in love with Bradamante, a French noblewoman who is pretending to be a male knight.

Several centuries later, the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) wrote a poem titled Fiordispina, which was only published in full in 1862. It focuses on a different woman named Fiordispina, i.e. not the aforementioned character from medieval Italian literature.