The process or act of creating a cento; the technique of composing a work by selecting and arranging passages from existing texts.
From Latin 'cento' + '-ization' (the process of). This term formalized the practice into an academic discipline, allowing scholars to discuss and analyze the technique systematically.
Musicians who created 'mashups' by mixing famous songs were basically doing centonization 2,000 years after the Romans invented it—it's the eternal human urge to remix!
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