Trecento

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Thu Jan 19 2006 at 8:12:47

Tre*cen"to (?), n. & a. [It., three hundred, abbr. for thirteen hundred.]

The fourteenth century, when applied to Italian art, literature, etc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting.

 

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