Cesare Cantù
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Cesare Cantù (born December 5, 1804 in Brivio , Province of Lecco , † March 11, 1895 in Milan ) was a scholar and writer.
Due to the need of his parents, Cesare Cantù devoted himself to the clergy, but left the seminary before receiving the ordinations, held teaching positions in Sondrio, Como and Milan and moved in 1825 with the lyric work Algiso o La lega Lombarda and a ten-volume story the city and diocese of Como Storia della citta e della diocesi di Como attracts attention.
Later he devoted himself primarily to literary history and wrote about Alessandro Manzoni , George Byron , Victor Hugo , Giuseppe Parini as well as German literature. From 1874 until his death he was director of the Milan State Archives.
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He also pursued historical studies with zeal, and in 1833 he was prosecuted with his Sulla storia Lombarda del secolo XVII , was incarcerated and wrote his Margherita Pusterla in prison , the most popular historical novel by the Italians based on the Commento storico ai Promessi sposi o La Lombardia nel secolo XVII , which the Austrian censorship only released after three years. At that time he also drew up the plan for his large-scale Storia universale . From 1869 he was a corresponding member of the Accademia della Crusca in Florence .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Cantù, Caesar . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, pp. 269–272 ( digitized version ).
- Marino Berengo : Cantù, Cesare. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 18: Canella – Cappello. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1975.
- Francesca Kaucisvili Melzi D'Eril: Cesare Cantù ei cattolici liberali francesi, cinque corrispondenze con François-Alexis Rio, Albert DuBoys, Camille de Meaux, Mons. Félix Dupanloup, Maxime de LaRocheterie . (a cura di Francesca Kaucisvili Melzi D'Eril). Milano: Ed. Comune di Milano "Amici del Museo del Risorgimento", 1994
Web links
- Literature by and about Cesare Cantù in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Cesare Cantù in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cantù, Cesare |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cantu, Cesare |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian scholar and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brivio |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1895 |
| Place of death | Milan |