Centones

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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(5) Al desarrollar una poesia de circunstancias, en la que tanto el asunto como los metros y los recursos a utilizar--acrosticos, centones, ecos, poemas retrogrados ...--estaban marcados de antemano, los certamenes nos hablan de una poesia entendida como juego.
6 senatorem coniugem dulcissimu ex Virgilii operibus centones veteris ac Novi Testameti RI 03, Leonardi Aretini Viri laudatissimi ad Colutium pza.
En torno al tipo de composicion literaria, Maria Jose Cabezas dedica parte de la introduccion a explicar que es exactamente un centon, y a diferenciar los centones paganos de los cristianos.
"Centones: Recycled Art or the Embodiment of Absolute Intertextuality?" Kakanien Revisited.
Ravn, "Engelsk 'Instrumentalister' ved det danske Hof paa Shakespeares Tid," For Ide og Vikelighea 1 (1890) 75-92; June Schlueter, "English Actors in Kassel, Germany, during Shakespeare's Time," Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 10 (1998): 238-61, especially 244-46; Gunnar Sjogren, "Hamlet and the Coronation of Christian IV," Shakespeare Quarterly 16.2 (1965): 155-60; and Mara Wade, "The Queen's Courts: Anne of Denmark and Her Royal Sisters--Cultural Agency at' Four Northern European Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centones," in Women and Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens, ed.
Centones christiani: metamorphoses d'une forme intertextuelle dans la poesie latine chritienne de TAntiquite tardive.