quattrocento noun & adjective. [kwatrǝ(ʊ)'tʃɛntǝʊ] L19.
[Italian = four hundred.]
A. noun. The fifteenth century in Italy; the Italian style of art, architecture, etc., of this period. L19.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or pertaining to the quattrocento. E20.

■ quattrocentist noun a fifteenth-century Italian artist or writer M19.

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