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Rating them from least to most favourite, just for fun.

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Bortolo: Belotti, antifascist politician who initially supported Mussolini but then turned against him. That would make him a decent enough namesake were it not for the fact his name sound absolutely hideous.
Dino: saur. Sounds like the name of an eccentric Greek philosopher who children would giggle at during history lessons.
Andreina: unappealing sound. I want to spell it Andreína to change it from an-DRAIN-a to an-dreh-EE-na, which is marginally better.
Guido: the "GWEED" sound is horrid.
Clelia: sounds strange and unattractive, vaguely mathematical.
Luigi: inseparable from the video game character.
Gaetano: at least it's less feeble than the Polish Kajetan. Still, not much going for it.
Fabio: ehh. I dislike Fabian too, but Fabio is worse.
Benito: the sound is silly, and the associations with Mussolini and Juarez are deeply off-putting.
Palma: about as silly as naming a child palm in my language.
Enrica: I dislike the sound.
Carla: frumpy. As far as feminine forms of Charles go, I prefer Charlotte.
Giacobbe: I dislike most forms of Jacob, this one included - they all sound so heavy, unlike James.
Paolina: looks like a typo of Paulina.
Giuseppe: sounds like a cliché, and I dislike its nicknames.
Franco: Francisco. Far from an honourable namesake.
Adriano: ostentatious.
Giulio: uninspiring.
Gina Maria: ditto, but slowly getting there.
Nicola: alright on a boy, grim on a girl.
Pierantonio: unobjectionable.
Cecilia: beautifully with the se-SEEL-ya pronunciation, acceptable with the Italian one.
Zelia: it would be a marvellous name were it not for the fact that it's a genus of flies.
Vincenzo: NMS, but not bad. I suppose it has a raffish air, in a cheap paperback edition of a romance novel kind of way.
Giovanna: I like Giovanni, but Giovanna feels like it's missing something.

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Love:

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Amalia
Giovanna
Anna
Mirella
Angelina

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Floriano
Franco
Giovanni
Adriano

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Like:

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Andreina
Enrica
Palma
Paolina

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Benito
Celestino
Dino
Pietro
Vincenzo
Nicola