Cantù, Cesare

an Italian historian, B. at Bririo, near Milan, 1805. When only 18 years of age, he became profe or of literature in the college of Sondrio in the Valteline, from which he went to Como, and thence to Milan. He embraced the liberal cause, and his Reflec tions on the History of Lombardy in the Seventeenth Century, published at Milan, excited the hostility of the Anstrian government, by which he was imprisoned for three years. In his captivity he wrote an historical romance, Marg her it a Pusterla (1835), a work which has often been compared to the Prome i Sposi of Manzoni. He has composed various religious hymns, and his poems, Algiso, his Letture Giovanili, which have pa ed through more than 30 editions, and the articles which he has contributed to the Biblioteca Italian a, and the Indicatore of Milan, have popularized his name throughout Italy. He belongs to what has been called the Romantic School" founded by Manzoni and Silvio Pellico. This author has published Storia Uni ver sale, which has been translated into English, French, and German; History of Italian Literature (1851); History of the Last Hundred Years (1852), . Died March 11, 1895. Can'tu, or CANTURIO, a town of N. Italy, in Lombardy, 5 m. S.E. of Como. It has had iron manufactures ever since the 10th century. Pop . 6,274. Cant'well's Bridge, in Delaware . See ODESSA. Can'ty, a . A term used in Scotland, and the N. of England, in the sense of merry, cheery, gay, lively; as, "A canty dame." - Words worth .