Florence/Firenze

[rickfan37]

No: HPFGUIDX 71207

I apologise if this has been covered before, but...

Remember Florence, the girl Bertha Jorkins saw an unidentified boy 
kissing behind the greenhouses before he hexed her?
We know from OOTP that the young Severus liked to throw hexes around -
 we are told he directed more than a few at James! - so could it be 
him?

And what is the significance of the centaur Firenze leaving his kind 
in order to work at the school?

I assume everybody knows that the Italian city of Florence is Firenze 
in Italian?
Knowing the care JKR takes with names and meanings etc, I cannot help 
but think this may be significant, somehow, although surely not in 
the obvious way! I do not for one minute think either that Snape is 
gay, OR that JKR would refer to it if she herself decided he was! But 
the coincidence intrigues me nonetheless.

Thoughts? Theories?