Cento sonetti
Cento sonetti is a 1554 Italian poetry collection printed in Milan by Gio. Antonio Borgia, with verses attributed to Antonio Francesco and Hieronimo Rainerio for a general literary readership. Both pictures are the same woodcut printer's device: a leafy tree with a trunk wrapped in unfurling banners bearing Latin mottoes, drawn in crisp black line with dense foliage and small clustered fruit, a design a designer could adapt for emblem, seal or heraldic-style borders.
