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Centones

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Cento, Centones, Centoism A literary or musical composition made up of selections; a string or rigmarole; a composition formed by joining scraps from other authors, 1605; a patchwork of coloured cloths, 1610.
Examples: cento of blunders, 1780; of borrowed thoughts, 1859; of commonplaces, 1822; of literary works, 1605; of musical composition; of uncircumcised nations, 1647; of patchwork, 1610; of revolters of popery, 1626; of scriptural phrases; of verses, 1882.


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6) alla voce Laelii Capilupi Centones ex Virgilio, segue ora l'informazione relativa all'anno e al luogo di pubblicazione (Romae anno Domini 1590); oppure al testo Enchiridion aliud, piarum precationum, cum Calendario, & Passionali (ut vocatur), segue, in latino, Witenbergae, apud Ioannem Lust, anno millesimo, quingentesimo, vicesimo, nono; oppure Liber Psalmorum Davidis .
 
 
 
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