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Across the world, Marchese (Marchese , Markies ) is a very rare largely masculine, but infrequently girly forename. The first name Marchese is characteristic of the United States, where it is an extremely rare dominantly male, but seldom feminine name, and China, where it is an extremely rare boy's name. Much more prevalently, Marchese is the last name as well as the forename.
Marchese is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Marchese Sebastiano , the operatic character in the opera Der lustige Krieg; Marchese di Forlimpopoli , the operatic character in the opera Mirandolina (Martinů); Marchese d'Obigny , the operatic character in the opera La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi; Marchese Calandrano , the operatic character in the opera Il curioso indiscreto by Pasquale Anfossi; a curious man and Marchese Cavalotti , the operatic character in the operetta Maske in Blau, among other works.