cinquecentist
(tʃiŋkweˈtʃɛntɪst)
[ad. Ital. cinquecentista (pl. -isti), f. cinquecento; see next. In mod.F. cinquecentiste.]
An (Italian) artist or writer of the cinquecento period.
| 1871 Farrar Witn. Hist. iii. 121 The foul poetry of the Cinquecentisti. 1885 Edin. Rev. Jan. 41 The Cinquecentists hunted patiently below the stratum of wreckage. |