CESARE CANTU
\sˈɛse͡ə kˈantuː], \sˈɛseə kˈantuː], \s_ˈɛ_s_eə k_ˈa_n_t_uː]\
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An Italian historian; born at Brivio, Lombardy, Dec. 2, 1805; died near Milan, March 11, 1895. Imprisoned for political causes in 1833, he employed his leisure in writing a historical romance, "Margherita Pusterla" (1838), one of the most successful of modern Italian romances; it gives a graphic picture of prison life. He wrote numerous historical and biographical works; his "Universal History" (35 vols.) has passed through several editions, and has been translated into other languages.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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