Dialogi di amore,
A 1541 Venetian printing of Leone Ebreo's dialogues on love, issued by the Aldine heirs and translated by Mariano Lenzi, for a scholarly and literate readership. The pictures are small woodcut and halftone images: two near-identical printer's devices of Aldus's anchor with a dolphin wrapped around it, flanked by the letters AL and DVS, and a blue halftone of a classical marble head in profile. A designer might take the compact anchor-and-dolphin mark as a model for a restrained emblem, and the blue stone head as a study in halftone shading.
