amoretto

Some of the ‘Amoretti’ were doubtless addressed by Spenser in 1593 to the lady who became his wife a year later.

Mosto reads focine, which is amended by Amoretti to foscine.

Papponi, (of whom Amoretti writes,) a man of such susceptibility, was cured of convulsive attacks by change of place.

The classical amoretti, of which many versions in bronze existed, were also frequently copied.