Quattrocento

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  quattrocento
       n : the 15th century in Italian art and literature