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After these men expand arid wildernesses of the Sei Cento--barocco architecture, false taste, frivolity, grimace, affectation--Jesuitry translated into false culture Symonds is here speaking of the dawn of the seventeenth century, but the movement toward these conditions is quite clearly marked in the later years of the preceding cycle.

—Some Forerunners of Italian Opera

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- I'm sick and tired of seeing that "barocco revisited" style in every single Parisian store — Apartment Therapy Main
The word "baroque" comes from the Italian word "barocco" which means bizarre. — About.com Music Education
After these men expand arid wildernesses of the Sei Cento--barocco architecture, false taste, frivolity, grimace, affectation--Jesuitry translated into false culture Symonds is here speaking of the dawn of the seventeenth century, but the movement toward these conditions is quite clearly marked in the later years of the preceding cycle. — Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
After these men expand arid wildernesses of the Sei Cento--barocco architecture, false taste, frivolity, grimace, affectation--Jesuitry translated into culture. — Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
From a distance, as the carriage approached it, she recognized the lordly poplars, and far at the end of the avenue the elaborately stuccoed front and cornices of the old-fashioned "barocco" building. — Taquisara