Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The 14th century, especially with reference to Italian art and literature.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The fourteenth century in Italian art and literature: used with reference to the distinguishing styles or characteristics of the productions or Italian artists or writers of that period.
Wiktionary
- n. The fourteenth century AD; particularly, the style of Italian art associated with the 1300s
GNU Webster's 1913
- The fourteenth century, when applied to Italian art, literature, etc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting.
Etymologies
- Italian, from (mil) trecento, (one thousand) three hundred : tre, three (from Latin trēs; see trei- in Indo-European roots) + cento, hundred (from Latin centum; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots).
Examples
“It may be necessary, therefore, to explain to those who are unacquainted with the Italian mode of speaking in this respect that the Italians always speak of what we should call the fourteenth century as the "trecento," what we should call the fifteenth, as the”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
“At the same time the papacy, which with Innocent III (died 1216) had entered the "trecento" as arbiter of rulers, peoples, and nations and the acknowledged conscience of”
“Both of them used rosy tints in the flesh, with greenish and yellowish shadows, both recall the older artists of the "trecento" in the perspective, which is often incorrect, and out of proportion.”
“trecento", among whom we should opine that the influence of Orcagna in his frescoes in the Strozzi Chapel of S.M. Novella, was greater even than that of Giotto.”
“He began his career as a painter, studying at the Central School of Art and Design in London, but gradually drifted toward art history, earning a master's degree from the prestigious Courtauld Institute of Art in 1971 (his master's thesis was on the Italian trecento painter Duccio).”
“Apart from the apparently Tuscan copyist, also the 6-line system, typical for Italian trecento repertoire, which is used throughout the manuscript points at an origin in Italy, even maybe in Florence.”
“[28] Hervas, _Saggio Pratico delle lingue, Con prolegomeni, e una raccolta di orazioni Dominicali in più di trecento lingue,”
Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.
“For other definitions of Love as understood by the Italian poets of the trecento, see Guido Cavalcanti's most famous and most obscure Canzone,”
“He has put into his paintings every phase of life, and it is all so genuine and accurate, so true to reality that in his work, after five centuries, the Italian trecento still lives for us, despite the deplorable state of the frescoes, the defects of his perspective, and the childlike archaism of certain technical formulæ.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“; VOLPE, Il trecento in Storia letteraria d'Italia”
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