The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles are to all intents and purposes prose fabliaux

They have the full licence of that cla of composition, its sparkling fun, its truth to the conditions of ordinary human life. Many of them are taken from the work of the Italian novelists, but all are handled in a thoroughly original manner. The style is perhaps the best of all the late medieval prose works, being clear, precise, and definite without the least appearance of baldne or dryne . Saints bury , French Lit., p. 148. Cento (chen'to). A town in the province of Ferrara, Italy, situated near the Reno 17 miles north of Bologna. Population, 5,000. Centoatl (then-to-ätl'). In Mexican (Nahuatl) mythology, the godde (according to some authorities a god) of maize, and consequently of agriculture. Her principal feast was in the fourth Mexican month (April-May), and she was also honored in the eleventh month (Sept.). She was one of the patrons of childbirth. The offerings made to her were generally grain and fruits. Some authorities identify this godde with Cihuatcoatl, Tiazoltcotl, etc. Also written Cintcotl , Centeutl, Tzinteutl . Centones Homeric i (sen-to'nez hō-mer'i-si). See the extract. Cemetery Ridge. A low ridge near Gettys- burg, celebrated in the battle of that name. Cempoala (tham-pō-ä'lä). An ancient town of the Totonac Indians of Mexico, not far from hexameters, called Centones Homeric i, which were at the present site of Vera Cruz, and a little back from the coast. It is described as a city of 23.000 inhabitants, with many palaces and temples; but these ac Even the life of Christ was put together in Homeric tributed to the Empre Endocia, and thought worthy of being printed by Aldus (1501), and Stephens (1568), but apparently as Christian literature.