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CENTO (Gr. idvrpwv, Lat. cento, patchwork)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 674 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CENTO (Gr. idvrpwv, Lat. cento, patchwork) , a composition made up by collecting passages from various works. The Byzantine Greeks manufactured several out of the poems of
Homer
 , among which may be mentioned the
life
  of Christ by the famous empress Eudoxia, and a version of the Biblical history of Eden and the Fall. The Romans of the later
empire
  and the monks of the middle ages were fond of constructing poems out of the verse of Virgil. Such were the Cento Nuptialis of
Ausonius
 , the sketch of Biblical history which was compiled in the 4th
century
  by Proba Falconia, wife of a Roman proconsul, and the hymns in honour of St Quirinus taken from Virgil' and
Horace
  by Metellus, a monk of Tegernsee, in the latter half of the 12th
century
 . Specimens may be found in the
work
  of Aldus Manutius (Venice, 1504; Frankfort, 1541, I544). In 1535
Laelius
  Capitulus produced from Virgil an attack upon the dissolute lives of the monks; in 1536 there appeared at Venice a Petrarca Spirituale; and in 1634 Alexander Ross (a Scotsman, and one of the chaplains of Charles I.) published a Virgilius Evangelizans, seu Historia Domini nostri Jesu Christi Virgilianis verbis et versibus descripta.


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