Name Piccarda
Gender Feminine
Usage Medieval Italian, Literature
Pronounced Pron. Pee-kar-da
Edit Status Status
Meaning & History
Feminine form of Piccardo. Piccarda Donati was a 13th-century Florentine (Italian) noblewoman who appears as a character in Dante's Paradise. Another notable bearer was Piccarda Bueri (1368-1433), an Italian noblewoman whose son Cosimo de' Medici founded the Medici dynasty.