Definition of Trecento

1. n. & a. 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.

Definition of Trecento

1. Noun. The fourteenth century AD; particularly, the style of Italian art associated with the 1300s ¹

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Definition of Trecento

1. the fourteenth century [n -TOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trecento

treble staff
trebled
trebleness
trebles
treblet
treblets
treblier
trebliest
trebling
trebly
trebuchet
trebuchets
trebucket
trebuckets
trecenaries
trecento (current term)
trecentos
trechmannite
treck
trecked
trecking
trecks
treckschuyt
treckschuyts
treddled
treddles
treddling
tredecennial
tredecillion

Literary usage of Trecento

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dante and His Italy by Lonsdale Ragg (1907)
"CHAPTER VI DANTE'S FLORENCE "V TO WHERE, perhaps, as in Florence do we find so 1 ^1 intensely manifested the exuberant life of the trecento, in its brighter ..."

2. Masterpieces of Painting, Their Qualities and Meanings: An Introductory Study by Louise Rogers Jewett (1915)
"... V Ideals of the trecento THE greatest painters of the fourteenth century, or the "trecento," as it is called in Italy, belong to its earliest decades. ..."

3. Analysis of Ornament: The Characteristics of Styles: an Introduction to the by Ralph Nicholson Wornum (1882)
"... would be more properly called trecento ; if it contain, besides these, elaborate natural imitations, festoons, scroll-work, and occasional symmetrical ..."

4. Saint Catherine of Siena and Her Times by Margaret Roberts (1906)
"CHAPTER II SIENA IN THE trecento TO understand the character and history of St Catherine of Siena it is necessary to realise her surroundings and the ..."

5. Bibliotheca Marsdeniana Philologica Et Orientalis: A Catalogue of Books and by William Marsden (1827)
"... e una raccolta di Orazioni Dominical! in più di trecento lingue. Cesena 1787, 4to. ! HESSE (ELIAS). Ost-Indische Reise-Beschreibung oder Diarium, ..."

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