Cam'po Bas'so, Niccolo

COUNT DA, a celebrated commander of Italian mercenaries, lived in the latter half of the fifteenth century. He had first supported the house of Anjou, in the kingdom of Naples, but afterwards transferred his services to their opponent, Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. By pandering to the prejudices and caprices of that headstrong prince, he acquired great influence over his mind, and, in the end availed himself of the confidence placed in him by the duke to sell him to his enemies. While the Duke was engaged in the siege of Nancy, in 1477, on the approach of a superior force under Ferrand, Duke of Lorraine, to relieve the place, Campo Ba o deserted to the enemy immediately before battle. The Burgundians were, in consequence, defeated, and the duke himself slain. The treacherous Italian was supposed to be the murderer, as the bodies of some of his men were observed near the spot where the unfortunate prince was found killed and stripped the day after the battle. Cam'po Bello, an island of New Brunswick, at the mouth of Pa amaquoddy Bay, Lat. 44° 57′ N., Lon. 66° 55′ W. It is 8 m. long, and from 1 to 3 m. broad; and at its N. end has a light-house 60 feet above high water mark. 5,966. Campobello, in S. Carolina , a post-office of Spartan burg district. Cam'po de Cripta'na, a town of Spain, province Ciudad Real, 50 m. N.E. from Ciudad Real city; pop . Cam'po For'mio, a town of S. Italy, prov. Friuli, 4 m. 8.W. of Udine. This place is famous in history for the treaty of peace concluded here, Oct. 17, 1797, between France and Austria, respectively represented by Gen. Bonaparte and the Count of Coblentz. Austria ceded the Netherlands, Milan, and Mantua, and received as compensation the districts Istria, Dalmatia, and the left bank of the Adige, in the Venetian states, and the capital, Venice; while France took the remaining territory of Venice, its po e ions in Albania, and the Ionian Islands. Poр . 1,749. Cam'po-Maj'or, a frontier and fortified town of Portugal, prov. Alentejo, 12 m. N.N.E. of Elvas, and 15 N.W. of Badajoz. It is an ill-built, dirty, miserable place. Pop . 5,127.