Beatrice (/ ˈbiː (ə) trɪs / BEE- (ə-)triss, Italian: [beaˈtriːtʃe]) [1] is a female given name. The English variant is derived from the French Béatrice, which came from the Latin Beatrix, which means "blessed one". [2] Beatrice is also the Italian language version of Beatrix. The Spanish and Portuguese form is Beatriz. The popularity of Beatrice spread because of Dante Alighieri 's ...
Beatrice is the literary darling of the baby name world. It manages to be sweet without being saccharine, and intellectual without being pretentious. There is a “bookish cool” vibe to Beatrice; it feels right at home in a dusty library, a royal palace, or a modern playground. While it was once considered a “great-grandma” name, it has dusted off the cobwebs to become a chic, vintage ...
Beatrice is a girl's name of Italian, Latin origin meaning "she who brings happiness; blessed". Beatrice is the 579 ranked female name by popularity.
Italian form of Beatrix. Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290) was the woman who was loved by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. She serves as Dante's guide through paradise in his epic poem the Divine Comedy (1321). This is also the name of a character in Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing (1599), in which Beatrice and Benedick are fooled into confessing their love for one another.
Beatrice was the woman to whom the great Italian poet Dante dedicated most of his poetry and almost all of his life, from his first sight of her at the age of nine through his glorification of her in The Divine Comedy, completed 40 years later, to his death in 1321.