Cesare Cantu

CESARE CANTÚ (Italy, 1804- 1895).
"Los heréticos de Italia. First Spanish edition.
Printer: Elizalde y compañía. 1868.
Translator: Manuel Gonzalez.
It has illustrations and Spanish paper covers.
In good condition.
Measurements. 33 x 23 x 8 cm.
Cesare Cantù was an Italian historian, writer, archivist and politician. An immensely prolific writer, Cantù was one of Italy's best known and most important Romantic scholars. He studied in Milan, at the Barnabite College of St. Alexander, and began his career as a teacher His prodigious literary activity brought him under the suspicion of the Austrian police, who thought he was a member of Young Italy, and he was arrested in 1833. After his release a year later, when he was forbidden to teach, literature became his only recourse. In 1836, the Turin publisher Giuseppe Pomba commissioned him to write a universal history, which enabled him to carry out his wide reading. In 1873 he founded the Lombard historical society and was appointed superintendent of the Milan State Archives. In 1875 he became a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.