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 Ecbasis Captivi, an animal-epic 100 appearing at Toul in 940, has one fifth of its verses formed out of Horace in the manner of the cento, or patchwork.

From Horace and His Influence by Showerman, Grant

It adapts the pastoral form to that ideal of civility dependent upon culture, which took so strong a hold upon the imagination of the cinque cento.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington