Amore
Amore is a 1535 Italian collection of love poems by Girolamo Benivieni, Egidio da Viterbo, Matteo Maria Boiardo and Domenico Baglioni, printed in Venice by Vettor Rauano and partners for a literate readership. Its pictures are small woodcut initials and ornaments: a framed emblem of foliage and a flower-filled circle, a woman whose tail curls into scrollwork, an initial beside verse with a figure, and a checkered dot pattern. A designer could take from them a compact repertoire of Renaissance initials, borders and framing devices.
