Figure 317
Ornaments: Amoretti’s Saggio de’ Caratteri, Parma
1811
Andrea Amoretti, a learned Italian priest, who, renouncing his calling, engraved some of Bodoni’s types, and who printed some pretty books himself, issued a delightful little specimen…this book shows how the Italian output had been influenced by Bodoni and Didot.… The clear-cut ornaments which are to earlier ornaments what the Amoretti types of 1811 are to earlier types, are very perfect, very brilliant, and extremely characteristic of the fashionable style in printing at that period.