Covers- The Three Suns: "Colonel Bogey March".

From my notebooks-

Aristophanes: Homeric centos in 'Peace' 1090-1094; 'Frogs' 1264ff; 1285ff; 1309ff.

Hosidius Geta (late 2c. AD) wrote a tragedy of quotations from
Vergil "Medea" (461 lines; which may be found in Poetae Latini Minores, vol. IV)--& started a fad.

In the reign of Septimius Severus (180-211) "...in poetry this period produced nothing but Vergilian centos".

V. Faltona Proba (c. 351): 700-line Vergilian cento summarizing the Old & New Testaments (Jerome said: 'puerile').

Ausonius (310-394): 'nuptial cento' (naughty).

Luxorius (c. 530): "epithalamium Fridi"--this has actually been
translated.

Then there's the Empress Eudocia's...

"The earliest extant patchwork poem in English was published in 1775, written to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday." --Werd Trix

Thomas Gray liked them.

Mark Strand made one from Fitzgerald's Aeneid.

The Tradition Continues.

A Masque in the Form of a Cento.

One by Robert Mezey.

A cento from Leonard Nimoy (!!).

A few more.