Seicento

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the seventeenth century in Italian history and culture, especially in art, music, and literature

   The exhibition traces dramatic changes in painting during the Seicento.

Borrowed from Italian Seicento, literally six hundred, shortened from milleseicento, one thousand six hundred. Italian uses the term for the 1600s and, by extension, for the country's seventeenth-century history and culture.

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