[It., lit. ‘three hundred,’ short for mil trecento 1300; cf. CINQUECENTO.] The fourteenth century (13[?]), as a period of Italian art, architecture, etc.; also attrib.
1841. W. Spalding, Italy & It. Isl., II. 215. The vigour and expressiveness of the trecento.
1873. ‘Ouida,’ Pascarèl, I. 9. The beautiful trecento windows were filled with eager faces.
1878. Villari, Machiavelli (1898), I. III. viii. 149. The literature of the Trecento may be considered as exclusively Tuscan.
1899. Westm. Gaz., 17 March, 3/1. They treat … of the trecento painters, of Giovanni Bellini and the early Venetians.
Hence Trecentist, ǁ Trecentista (It., pl. -isti), an Italian artist, author, etc., of the 14th c.
1821. Byron, Juan, III. lxxxvi. In Italy he’d ape the ‘Trecentisti.’
1883. C. C. Perkins, Ital. Sculpt., Introd. 33. The character of his work is so different from that of any other Italian trecentist.
