Cento

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

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Notion

Domain

Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

A cento is a poetical work wholly composed of verses or passages taken from other authors, especially the Greek poet Homer and the Roman poet Virgil, disposed in a new form or order.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Cento (poetry)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Robinet Testard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.