Speranza
[speˈrant͡sa]Meaning
Italian word for hope; cognate of Spanish Esperanza
Background Story
Speranza is the Italian word for hope and the Italian cognate of Esperanza. Edmund Spenser used it in The Faerie Queene (1590) for the sister of Fidelia, and the Irish poet Lady Wilde (1821-1896) assumed it as a pen name.
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