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The
Trecento (Italian for 300, or from "mille trecento," 1300) refers to the
14th century in Italian cultural history.
Commonly the Trecento is considered to be the beginning of the
Renaissance in art history. Painters of the Trecento included
Giotto di Bondone, the first to use
perspective in art, as well as
Andrea da Firenze,
Simone Martini,
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and
Duccio di Buoninsegna.
The Trecento was also famous as a time of heightened literary activity, with writers working in the vernacular instead of Latin.
Dante,
Petrarch and
Boccaccio were the leading writers of the age. Dante produced his famous
La divina commedia (The
Divine Comedy), a summation of the medieval worldview, and Petrarch wrote verse in a lyrical style influenced by the Provençal poetry of the
troubadours.
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. Musicians and composers of the Trecento included the renowned
Francesco Landini, as well as
Gherardello da Firenze,
Andrea da Firenze,
Giovanni da Firenze,
Paolo da Firenze (Paolo Tenorista),
Donato da Cascia,
Niccolò da Perugia,
Maestro Piero,
Bartolino da Padova,
Giovanni da Cascia, and
Vincenzo da Rimini.
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