[ad. Ital. cinquecentista (pl. -isti), f. cinquecento; see next. In mod. F. cinquecentiste.] An (Italian) artist or writer of the cinquecento period.
1871. Farrar, Witn. Hist., iii. 121. Much more revolting than the foul poetry of the cinquecentisti.
1885. Edin. Rev., Jan., 41. The Cinquecentists hunted patiently below the stratum of wreckage.
