Female first name (German, Italian): Loredana; Italian (invented); Lauretum = the laurel grove (Latin), Luciano Zuccoli as the name of the heroine of his novel 'L'amore Tues Loredana' (1908) invented, perhaps modeled on the family name ' Loredan 'of an old Venetian patrician family;' Loredan 'as the family is from the place name' Loreo '