Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Cinquecento
Cin′que·cen′to (chēn′kwā·chān′tō), n. & a. [It., five hundred, abbrev. for fifteen hundred. The Cinquecento style was so called because it arose after the year 1500.] The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.