Quattrocento \Quat`tro*cen"to\, n. & a. [It., four hundred, used
as an abbreviated expression for the dates beginning with
fourteen hundred.]
The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or
literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento;
quattrocento style. -- {Quat`tro*cen"tist}, n.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]