Rinaldo (first name)

Rinaldo is a masculine Italian given name .

Origin and meaning

The name is possibly an Italian form of Reinhard , see there for more information.

The name Rinaldo appears in many literary works, e.g. B. Rinaldo in Torquato Tasso's epic La Gerusalemme Liberata and in countless operas based on it Armida and Rinaldo by Georg Friedrich Händel , Christoph Willibald Gluck , Joseph Haydn and others. Furthermore, Rinaldo Rinaldini is the main character of the robber captain in the novel of the same name by Christian August Vulpius , which appeared in Leipzig in 1798.

Name bearer

• Rinaldo degli Albizzi (1370–1442), Florentine patrician
• Rinaldo Bonanno (1545–1600), Italian sculptor
• Rinaldo Capello (* 1964), Italian racing driver
• Rinaldo Cruzado (* 1984), Peruvian soccer player
• Rinaldo d'Este (1655–1737), Duke of Modena and Reggio, Bishop of Palestrina
• Rinaldo Hopf (* 1955), German artist
• Rinaldo Martino (1921–2000), Argentine-Italian football player
• Rinaldo Nocentini (* 1977), Italian racing cyclist
• Rinaldo Talamonti (* 1947), Italian actor

Renaldo

• Renaldo Balkman (* 1984), American basketball player
• Renaldo Benson (1936–2005), American soul and R&B singer
• Renaldo Nehemiah (* 1959), American athlete
• Renaldo Rama (* 1990), Albanian football player
• Renaldo Snipes (* 1956), American heavyweight boxer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rinaldo on behindthename.com (Engl.)