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
The ninth, upon fidelity in love, contains these noble lines: La fede mai non debbe esser corrotta, O data a un sol o data ancor a cento, Data in palese o data in una grotta.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
F. Douza was the first who collected the fragments of this satiric poet, and formed them into a cento.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
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