amoretto

noun3

1. •
   A cupid or putto (representation of a naked baby or small child, often with wings).

   • […] a golden Eden of Joy, of bliss and marital raptures surrounded by choiring throngs of rosy amoretti […] — 1936
2. •
   A love poem.

   • Amoretti — a set of sonnets by Edmund Spenser describing his courtship and marriage (1595).
3. •
   A male sweetheart, lover.

   • What is Life, and the best things in life, with which her Amorettoes and Idolatrous Adorers are so delighted? — 1614