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How sweet. Anything but Sophia, I beg you. Dime a dozen at the moment.

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I have a book entitled, "Uppity Women of the Renaissance," by Vicki Leon. It has many stories of women from all over Europe, including Italy of course. Here are some suggestions from the book:

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Barbara (Strozzi), Maddalana (Casulana) and Tarquinia (Molza) -- 3 composers
Francesca and Settimia (Caccini) -- musical sisters (composers)
Elisabetta (Sirana) -- painter
Maria (de Medici)
Olympia* (Maidalchini*) -- daughter of Pope Innocent X
Ersilia (Santa Croce), Beatrice (Cenci), Lucrezia (Petroni) -- rich women with soap opera style lives
Catarucia (Zane) -- jailed for running away with her lover.
Cristina (Dandalo) -- bailed out Catarucia Zane.
Cassandra (Fedele) -- intellectual
Franchesina* (Sorenzo) -- wife of the Doge (= Duke) of Venice.
Julia (Lombardo) -- Ventian cortesan
Olimpia (Morata) -- intellectual
Prudenza (da Contralto), Madalena (dal Violin), Zabetta (Incurabili) -- musicians
Arcangela (Tarabotti) -- author
Elena (Piscopia) -- noblewoman turned nun and intellectual
Caterina (de Pazzi) -- noblewoman turned nun and painter
Isotta and Ginevra (Nogarola) -- ointellectual sisters
Alessandra (Bocchineri) -- wrote letters to Galileo
Marina (Gamba) -- bore children of Galileo
Giovanna (Cenami) -- bride in van Eyck's famous painting of couple
Lucrezia (Buti) -- nun and model for Virgin Mary in Fra Filippo Lippi
Ginevra (da Binci) -- subject of Leonardo da Vinci's portrait

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Other ideas:

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Piera / Pierangela
Cosima (think: Cosmo de Medici)
Oriana (= the golden one)
Artemisia (Gentileschi) -- famous painter
Simonetta
Antonina (nn Nina?)
Consolata
Immaculata
Silvia
Annunziata (nn Annie?)
Fiammetta
Constanza
Aurelia
Renata (= reborn!)

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Good luck and please let us know what you choose. I'd be very interested to hear. Thanks for a fun thread.

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* These spellings look inauthentic to me, but that's how they appear in the book. I would do a google check on the whole name just to be sure if I were you.