L'amorose rime
A 1559 Italian book of love poems in verse by Ascanio Centorio, printed in Milan by Giovanni Antonio degli Antonij for readers of Italian poetry. Its pictures are small woodcut decorated initials, framed in square blocks: one B with a bear and a fox among foliage, one L with a figure wrestling a creature, one D set beside the text, and one O on a dense ground of leaves, stars and fruit, offering a designer compact historiated letter forms and dense ornamental backgrounds to adapt.
