cento
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Author’s Note: A cento, from the Latin for “patchwork,” is a collage poem composed of lines from other sources.
From Scientific American • Feb. 4, 2023
While reading a cento, one savored its imaginative repurposing of bits from Horace, Virgil and any number of lesser ancients.
From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2017
If not, it should, for Robert Irwin’s ingenious historical fantasy “Wonders Will Never Cease” is a contemporary novelist’s version of the poetic form known as a cento.
From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2017
No matter that it is necessary even here to make a cento, that the untutored singer cannot keep up the song by natural force and has not skill enough to dissemble the lapses.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George
“Non prenderò cento ducati, Tu costi molto più Io ti vendrò al Sultano,” Disse il Capitano, “Per mille zecchini d’oro Vi stimi troppo giù.”
From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Leland, Charles Godfrey
