Una and Ita

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  • unità (Italian): unity
  • Una (Italian, Latin): one
  • Ita (Latin): thirst
  • Una: (Oona) a Irish woman's name, perhaps derived from uan: sleep
  • ide (Irish): fate, destiny
  • Una: the personification of the "True Church" (and "Truth" in a larger sense) in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. She travels with the Redcrosse Knight (who represents England), and also defeats Duessa, who represents the "false" (Catholic) church.