Why this word is great
QUATTROCENTO — [Noun] The fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance period, spanning the years 1400–1499. From the Italian quattrocento ("four hundred"), a contraction of mille quattrocento ("one thousand four hundred"). Unlike the trecento (which precedes it, still groping toward humanism) or the cinquecento (which follows, already calcifying into mannerism), the quattrocento is the moment when art exhales—when perspective sharpens, when bodies find their weight, when light learns to fall. It is Brunelleschi’s dome rising over Florence, Botticelli’s Venus stepping from her shell, and Ghiberti’s bronze doors gleaming with the illusion of depth—a century suspended between the medieval and the modern, when the world remembered how to see.