Comments for the name Renzo

The pronunciation is RREN-tsaw.

The name is used on a character in the Carlo Gozzi play "The Green Bird." He plays a young man who is arrogant and intellectual, only to find at the end of the play that he was approaching life all wrong and that he should look to wisdom and love to find happiness. He was born to a king and a queen, but was raised by two peasants with his twin sister Barbarina.