Everything about Cento Poetry totally explained
In
poetry, a
cento is a work wholly composed of
verses or passages taken from other authors; only disposed in a new form or order.
The term comes from the
Latin cento, a cloak made of patches; and that from the
Greek κεντονιον. The
Roman soldiers used these
centos, or old stuffs patched over each other, to guard themselves from the strokes of their enemies. Others say, that
centos were probably used for the patches of leather, etc, with which their galleries or screens, called
vineae, were covered; under which the besiegers made their approaches towards any place. Hence
centonarii, the people whose business was to prepare these
centos.
Alexander Ross did the same thing in his
Virgilii Evangelisantis Christiados (1634), his most celebrated work of poetry.
Etienne de Pleure did the same in
Sacra Aeneis (1618): an instance of whose centos on the
adoration of the
Magi, is as follows (asterisks separate quotations from different verses):
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