Definition of Cinqoecento

Definition of Cinqoecento

Cinqué Cento (lit. five hundred), the Renaissance in literature and art in the 16th century, the expression 5 hundred standing for 15 hundred.

- Wikipedia

||Cin`que*cen"to (?), n. & a. [It., five hundred, abbrev. for fifteen hundred. The Cinquecento style was so called because it arose after the year 1500.] The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Italian

five hundred
five hundred
sixteenth century

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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