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

Discende lasso onde si muove snello Per cento ruote, e da lungi si pone Dal suo maestro, disdegnoso e fello.—Inf.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

“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