This is the first name of the female character in 
This is the first name of the female character in a Hawthorne story who has become poisonous due to her association with her father's plants in "Rappaccini's Daughter." Another fictional female of this name is kinswoman to Hero and engages in a "merry war" of wits with her lover, Benedick. That female lead of Much Ado about Nothing shares this first name with a woman whose beauty as a child inspired a collection of sonnets and commentaries called La Vita Nuova. FTP what woman serves as the guide of Dante in the Paradiso section of the Divine Comedy.
This is the first name of the female character in a Hawthorne story who has become poisonous due to her association with her father's plants in "Rappaccini's Daughter."
Beatrice