AMORETTI, little loves, cupids. The title of a sequence of sonnets (published 1595), written by Edmund Spenser (q.v.) and dedicated to Elizabeth, probably the daughter of James Boyle, whom he married in 1594. The verses record the course of his wooing and close with the beautiful ode or Epithalamion celebrating his wedding.
See Emile Legouis, Spenser, chap. iv. (1926).