trecento

[ trey-chen-toh; Italian tre-chen-taw ]

noun

, (often initial capital letter)

1. the 14th century, with reference to Italy, and especially to its art or literature.

trecento

/ treɪˈtʃɛntəʊ /

noun

1. the 14th century, esp with reference to Italian art and literature

Derived Forms

• treˈcentist, noun

Other Words From

• tre·centist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of trecento¹

1835–45; < Italian, short for mille trecento 1300, hence representing the years 1300–99, dates beginning with these numbers

Word History and Origins

Origin of trecento¹

C19: shortened from Italian mille trecento one thousand three hundred

Example Sentences

Trecento, trā-chen′tō, n. the 14th century in Italian art, &c.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

The 14th-century work at Assisi is more correctly described as “Trecento” than as Gothic, and the “Quattrocento” windows at Florence are as different as could be from Perpendicular work.

From Project Gutenberg

It has developed on parallel lines with the modern European languages, and in obedience to the same laws; like them, it might have grown into a literary language had any great writers arisen in the middle ages to do for it what Dante and his successors of the trecento did for Italian.

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The Annunciation above is by Niccolò of Arezzo, at the close of the Trecento.

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The Arte dei Vaiai e Pellicciai, furriers, although a greater Guild, seems to have been contented with the rather insignificant marble St. James, which follows, of uncertain authorship, and dating from the end of the Trecento; the bas-relief seems later.

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