||Tre*cen"to (?), n. & a. [It., three
hundred, abbr. for thirteen hundred.] 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.
||Tre*cen"to (?), n. & a. [It., three
hundred, abbr. for thirteen hundred.] 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.