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
In its original form, the cento takes small pieces of familiar works such as the Aeneid and reassembles the segments—anywhere from a few words to two full lines—into a new text.
From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Comfield, Amelia Stratton
“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
