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seicentist, n. (a.)|seɪiːˈtʃɛntɪst|
Also pl. ‖ se(i)centisti and with cap. initial.
[ad. It. seicentisti pl., f. seicento: see next.]
An Italian artist or man of letters of the seventeenth century. Also attrib. or as adj.
1841W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. iii. iv. 414 The seicentisti, or artists of the seventeenth century. 1881Encycl. Brit. XIII. 511/2 The ‘Secentisti’ erred by an overweening desire for novelty, which made them always go beyond the truth. 1905Athenæum 25 Mar. 376/3 The rest of the Italian School is of minor importance, though one or two of the Seicentists are here..well represented. 1931A. Huxley Music at Night i. 38 The bright reassuring Heaven,..the stage immensities and stage mysteries, all the stock-in-trade of the seicentisti, are absent from his [sc. El Greco's] pictures. 1938L. MacNeice Mod. Poetry i. 7 Theocritus is more escapist than Euripides..the Seicentist poets than Dante. |