Laude delle donne bolognese
An Italian verse book in praise of Bolognese women, printed in Bologna in 1514 by Iustiniano da Rubera and written by Claudio Tolomei (1492-1555) for a general readership interested in women. The pictures are small circular woodcut roundels: a nude woman with long hair stands in a landscape with a cupid and walled town repeated across three versions, while a fourth shows a woman with a spindle beside a rocky outcrop and a cloth-wrapped animal. A designer might take the compact circular framing and the bold black-line woodcut hatching as a model for emblem-style badges or vintage stamps.
