CESARE See also:

• CESARE CANTU (1804-1895)

CANTU (1804-1895)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian historian, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Brivio in See also:

• LOMBARDY

Lombardy and began his career as a teacher . His first See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay (1828) was a romantic poem entitled Algiso, o la Lega Lombarda (new ed., See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

Milan; 1876), and in the following See also:

• YEAR

year he produced a Storia di See also:

• COMO (anc. Comum)
• COMO, LAKE OF (the Lacus Larius of the Romans, and so sometimes called LARIO to the present day, though in the 4th century it is already termed Lacus Comacinus)

Como in two volumes (Como, 1829) . Thedeath of his See also:

• FATHER

father then See also:

• LEFT

left him in See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of a large See also:

• FAMILY

family, and he worked very hard both as a teacher and a writer to provide for them . His prodigious literary activity led to his falling under the suspicions of the See also:

• AUSTRIAN

Austrian See also:

• POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police, and he was mixed up in a See also:

• POLITICAL

political trial and arrested in 1833 . While in See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing materials were denied him, but he managed to write on rags with a tooth-pick and See also:

• CANDLE (Lat. candela, from candere, to glow)

candle See also:

• SMOKE (from O. Eng. smeocan, to smoke, reek, cf. Dutch meek, Ger. Schmauch, probably allied to Gr. vol9caiv)

smoke, and thus composed the novel Margherita Pusterla (Milan, 1838) . On his See also:

• RELEASE (O.Fr. reles, variant of relais, from relaisser, to release, let go, Lat. relaxare)

release a year later, as he was interdicted from teaching, literature became his only resource . In 1836 the Turinese publisher, Giuseppe Pomba, commissioned him to write a universal See also:

• HISTORY

history, which his vast See also:

• READING

reading enabled him to do . In six years the See also:

• WORK

work was completed in seventy-two volumes, and immediately achieved a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general popularity; the publisher made a See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune out of it, and Canti'1's royalties amounted, it is said, to 300,000 lire (I2,000) . Just before the revolution of 1848, being warned that he would be arrested, he fled to See also:

• TURIN

Turin, but after the " Five Days " he returned to Milan and edited a See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper called La Guardia Nazionale . Between 1849 and 185o he published his Storia degli Italiani (Turin, 1855) and many other See also:

• WORKS

works . In 1857 the See also:

• ARCHDUKE (Lat. archidux, Ger. Erzherzog)

archduke See also:

• MAXIMILIAN
• MAXIMILIAN (1832—1867)

Maximilian tried to conciliate the Milanese by the promise of a constitution, and See also:

• CANTU, CESARE (1804-1895)

Cantu was one of the few Liberals who accepted the See also:

• OLIVE (Olea europaea)

olive See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch, and went about in See also:

• COMPANY

company with the archduke . This See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act was regarded as See also:

• TREASON (Fr. trahison, Lat. traditio)

treason and caused Cantu much annoyance in after years .

He continued his literary activity after the formation of the Italian See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom, producing See also:

• VOLUME

volume after volume until his See also:

• DEATH

death .. For a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he was member of the Italian See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament; he founded the Lombard See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical society, and was appointed See also:

• SUPERINTENDENT

superintendent of the Lombard archives . He died in .See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1895 . His views are coloured by strong religious and political See also:

• PREJUDICE (Lat. praejudicium)

prejudice, and by a moralizing tendency, and his historical work has little See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical value and is for the most See also:

• PART

part pure See also:

• BOOK

book-making, although he collected a vast amount of material which has been of use to other writers . In dealing with See also:

• MODERN

modern Italian history he is reactionary and often wilfully inaccurate . Besides the above-mentioned works he wrote Gli Eretici in Italia (Milan, 1873); Cronistoria dell' Indipendenza italiana (See also:

• NAPLES
• NAPLES (Ital. Napoli, and Lat. Neapolis)
• NAPLES, KINGDOM OF

Naples, 1872-1877); Il Conciliatore e i See also:

• CARBONARI (an Italian word meaning " charcoal-burners ")

Carbonari (Milan, 1878), &c . (L .