Ginevra

Ginevra is the Italian form of Guinevere, which comes from the Welsh Gwenhwyfar, combining gwen, meaning fair or white, with a second element usually read as smooth or phantom. In Arthurian legend, Guinevere is the wife of King Arthur and the lover of Lancelot. Leonardo da Vinci painted the portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci, a Florentine noblewoman, which hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. In Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Ginevra is a Scottish princess wrongly accused, a story Shakespeare echoed in Much Ado About Nothing. Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter novels is formally named Ginevra.