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{{Short description|Italian culture and art of 1300–1399}}
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The '''Trecento''' ({{IPAc-en|t|r|eɪ|ˈ|tʃ|ɛ|n|t|oʊ}},<ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|trecento|access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190601163256/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/trecento "trecento"] (US) and {{Cite dictionary |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/trecento |title=trecento |dictionary=[[Lexico|Oxford Dictionaries]] UK English Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}{{dead link|date=September 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster|trecento|access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref> <small>also</small> {{IPAc-en|US|t|r|ɛ|ˈ|-}},<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/trecento|title=Trecento|work=[[Collins English Dictionary]]|publisher=[[HarperCollins]]|access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref> {{IPA|it|ˌtreˈtʃɛnto|lang}}; short for {{lang|it|milletrecento}}, "1300") refers to the 14th century in [[Italian cultural history]].<ref>[https://archive.org/details/lavitaitalianan00bonfgoog <!-- quote=Trecento nel rinascimento. -->  Il Trecento (in Italian)]</ref> The Trecento is considered to be the beginning of the [[Italian Renaissance]] or at least the [[Proto-Renaissance]] in art history. The Trecento was also famous as a time of heightened literary activity, with writers working in the vernacular instead of Latin. In music, the Trecento was a time of vigorous activity in Italy, as it was in [[France]], with which there was a frequent interchange of musicians and influences.

==Period==
===Art===
The Trecento is considered to be the beginning of the [[Italian Renaissance]] or at least the [[Proto-Renaissance]] in art history.  Painters of the Trecento included [[Giotto di Bondone]], as well as painters of the [[Sienese School]], which became the most important in Italy during the century, including [[Duccio|Duccio di Buoninsegna]], [[Simone Martini]], [[Lippo Memmi]],  [[Ambrogio Lorenzetti]] and his brother [[Pietro Lorenzetti|Pietro]].  Important sculptors included two pupils of [[Giovanni Pisano]]: [[Arnolfo di Cambio]] and [[Tino di Camaino]], and [[Bonino da Campione]].

===Vernacular writing===
The Trecento was also famous as a time of heightened literary activity, with writers working in the vernacular instead of Latin.  [[Dante]], [[Petrarch]] and [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio]] were the leading writers of the age.  Dante produced his famous ''La divina commedia'' (The ''[[Divine Comedy]]''), now seen as a summation of the medieval worldview, and [[Petrarch]] wrote verse in a lyrical style influenced by the [[Occitan literature|Provençal poetry]] of the [[troubadour]]s.

===Secular music===
{{further|Music of the Trecento}}
In music, the Trecento was a time of vigorous activity in Italy, as it was in [[France]], with which there was a frequent interchange of musicians and influences. Distinguishing the period from the preceding century was an emphasis on secular song, especially love lyrics; much of the surviving music is [[polyphonic]], but the influence of the troubadours who came to Italy, fleeing the [[Albigensian Crusade]] in the early 13th century, is evident. In contrast to the artistic and literary achievements of the century, Trecento music (at least in written form) flourished in the second half of the century, and the period is often extended (especially in English-language scholarship) into the first decades of the 15th century, as a so-called "Long Trecento". Musicians and composers of the Trecento included the renowned [[Francesco Landini]], as well as [[Maestro Piero]], [[Gherardello da Firenze]], [[Jacopo da Bologna]], [[Giovanni da Cascia]], [[Paolo da Firenze|Paolo "Tenorista" da Firenze]], [[Niccolò da Perugia]],  [[Bartolino da Padova]], [[Antonio Zachara da Teramo]], [[Matteo da Perugia]], and [[Johannes Ciconia]].

==See also==
*[[Duecento]] – the 13th century in Italian culture
*[[Quattrocento]] – the 15th century in Italian culture
*[[Cinquecento]] – the 16th century in Italian culture
*[[Seicento]] – the 17th century in Italian culture
*[[History of Italian culture (1700s)|Settecento]] – the 18th century in Italian culture
*[[Italian Neoclassical and 19th-century art|Ottocento]] – the 19th century in Italian culture
*[[Novecento (disambiguation)]] - the 20th century in Italian culture
*[[Italian Renaissance]] - started at end of 14th century

== References ==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book |first=Michael |last=Long |chapter=Trecento Italy |editor=McKinnon, James |title=Antiquity and the Middle Ages: From Ancient Greece to the 15th Century |series=Music and Society Series |location=Englewood Cliffs, NJ |publisher=Prentice Hall |year=1990 |pages=241–268 |isbn=0130361615}}

==External links==
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