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
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
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
We find it in full energy, possessing the public theatres and claiming the attention of all classes, at the close of the cinque cento.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
By the best sculptors it is always used with this symbolic meaning, by the cinque cento sculptors as an ornament merely.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
And so, I wanted to do what I could to discourage people from doing that and that's where the centos come in.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2019
The Empress Eudoxia wrote the life of Jesus Christ, in centos taken from Homer; Proba Falconia from Virgil.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
His numerous poetical works are of the most miscellaneous kind, ranging from Christian hymns and elegies on deceased relations to translations from the Greek Anthology and centos from Virgil.
From Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail
Parables and brief discourses, or rather, centos of religious and ethical exhortations and injunctions.
From Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
This was afterwards applied metaphorically to those well-known poems called centos, composed of shreds and patches of poetry, collected from all quarters.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
