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This was my great-grandmother's name. She died a year before I was born, but was known for her intellectual inclination and love of reading at a time where women received little academic education., as well as for her wit and sense of humour. The name comes from a character of the 16th century Italian epic "Jerusalem Delivered"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Delivered where Clorinda is a Moorish warrior-maiden, and the idea of a warrior-maiden is always kind of cool.

So what do you think of Clorinda? It's one of my unofficial middle names (appears in birth certificate, but I don't need to sign it). I wouldn't have minded it as a first name because it's very uncommon, unlike my own name. The great-grandmother in question hated it and forbade her daughters to use it on their own children (until recently, it was the norm in Italy to name kids after their grandparents).