settecento

Little of the original structure of this church is left, though its walls are still adorned, in patches, with frescoes of genuine angels -- attractive creatures, as far removed from those bloodless Byzantine anatomies as from the plethoric and insipid females of the _settecento.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

She has attempted to sum up the life of Italy in the latter half of the eighteenth century, that crucial settecento, which has aptly been compared to the closing act of a tragedy.

Mrs. Wharton's "The Valley of Decision." 1902