Libro de natvra de amore
Libro de natvra de amore is a 1525 Italian treatise on love by Mario Equicola, printed in Venice by Lorenzo Lorio da Portes for a scholarly and literate readership. Its pictures are a decorative architectural title page with pilasters and putti, a diagram of musical ratios drawn as arcs between numbered points, and a small woodcut of a crowned figure holding a sun emblem. A designer could draw on the framed Renaissance title page layout, the clean geometric diagram, and the simple woodcut figure for period-style typography and ornament.
