||Quat`tro*cen"to (?), n. & a. [It., four hundred, used as an abbreviated expression for the dates beginning with fourteen hundred.] The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style. -- Quat`tro*cen"tist (#), n.

||Quat`tro*cen"to (?), n. & a. [It., four hundred, used as an abbreviated expression for the dates beginning with fourteen hundred.] The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style. -- Quat`tro*cen"tist (#), n.

• the 15th century Renaissance Italian period
  
  Italian
• four hundred
  
• four hundred
  
• fifteenth century