cento

• “As Mary Carruthers observes, such allegorical games were made possible by a common figural language: A cento is a playful poem that is made up of a pastiche of half-lines and phrases from a canonical poet; it cannot succeed except for an audience who know the original poet as intimately as does the composer of the cento.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

• “But the higher merit of the cento is to produce one of the most charming books of travel ever written, like Robinson”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “The Homeric cento is still extant, and has been repeatedly printed: but the claim of Eudocia to that insipid performance is disputed by the critics.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “So he seeks out a large number of passages in the rest of the Odyssey, and in the Iliad also, which have something in common with passages of this First Book, especially in the matter of words, and easily finds it to be a "cento,”

  Homer's Odyssey A Commentary

• “It can be in centro or on the outskirts of town as long as it has secure parking, I do not mind taking a taxi to visit sites such as the Ambar Mueso or other cento sites ...”

  Hotel needed San Cristobal

• “Lowebrow: Is it plagiarism, cento, or prose riff? skip to main | skip to sidebar”

  Is it plagiarism, cento, or prose riff?

• “  Located in a double-wide trailer, los cento de teenoswas gaily decorated with crepe paper and Japanese lanterns, but I — I had already given my heart to Martha Stretz!”

  Fictionaut: My Bossa Nova Years

• “Ausonius [Urbino library, I.V. #498] likens the cento to a Greek bone puzzle called ostomachia.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

• “Minoranze religiose e diritti: percorsi in cento anni di storia degli ebrei e dei valdesi, 1848 – 1948.”

  Italy, Modern.

• “Non sembra proprio un aeroporto internazionale per una delle citta' principali del mondo - l'aeroporto di Aberdeen e' cento volte meglio!”

  I am not good at creative post titles

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