"Cento" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Deacon describes his Antiphoner as a "cento" (Antiphonarium Centonem compilavit), and speaks of him, as we have seen, as "Antiphonarium centonizans." "Cento" is a Low Latin word meaning patchwork, combination, or compilation. "Antiphonarius cento" would therefore mean an Antiphoner ...
— St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music • E. G. P. Wyatt
... make up his mind about Denis. To begin with, he exhaled that peculiar College aroma which the most heroic efforts of a lifetime often fail to dissipate. Then, he had said something about Florence, and Cinque-Cento, and Jacopo Bellini. The bishop, a practical man, had not much use for Jacopo Bellini or for people who talked about him. None the less, while making himself useful with unpacking and arranging things, Denis dropped a remark ...
— South Wind • Norman Douglas |
