Background
Cesare Cantù was born on December 5, 1804 in Brivio, Italy.
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Margherita Pusterla (Italian Edition)
(Margherita Pusterla)
Margherita Pusterla
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Las Cruzadas: Leyendas y Mitos (Spanish Edition)
(Las cruzadas se convirtieron en la gran gesta de la crist...)
Las cruzadas se convirtieron en la gran gesta de la cristiandad en la Edad Media, dando lugar a un fenómeno único en la historia que cambiaría para siempre Europa y Asia. En Europa, cruzarse se consideraba como una deuda con que cada uno se creía obligado respecto de Jesucristo. Millares de devotos peregrinos habían prestado juramento de no regresar a su tierra hasta que hubieran libertado Tierra Santa. Así, desde que en el año 1096, en que dieron comienzo los preparativos de la primera cruzada, hasta 1270, en que terminó la octava, Europa sufrió una serie de cambio y transformaciones que prefiguran el ya cercano renacimiento, gracias al contacto con las culturas orientales y medievales. En este libro ameno y entretenido, el conocido historiador italiano Cesare Cantù narra las Cruzadas desde una perspectiva europea, haciendo hincapié en las motivaciones primero religiosas y más tardes económicas que llevaron a las sucesivas Cruzadas, así como su consecuencia en la deriva de la historia europea y musulmana.
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Il Sacro Macello di Valtellina (Italian Edition)
(Il Sacro Macello di Valtellina)
Il Sacro Macello di Valtellina
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Cesare Cantu
Cesare Cantù was an Italian historian.
Education
Cesare Cantù studied in Milan, at the College of St. Alexander Barnabite, and began his career as a teacher.
Career
Cantu's first literary essay (1828) was a romantic poem entitled Algiso, la Lega Lombarda (new ed. , Milan, 1876), and in the following year he produced a Storia di Como in two volumes (Como, 1829). Thedeath of his father then left him in charge of a large family, and he worked very hard both as a teacher and a writer to provide for them. His prodigious literary activity led to his falling under the suspicions of the Austrian police, and he was mixed up in a political trial and arrested in 1833. While in prison writing materials were denied him, but he managed to write on rags with a tooth-pick and candle smoke, and thus composed the novel Margkerita Pusterla (Milan, 1838). On his release a year later, as he was interdicted from teaching, literature became his only resource. In 1836 the Turinese publisher, Giuseppe Pomba, commissioned him to write a universal history, which his vast reading enabled him to do. In six years the work was completed in seventy-two volumes, and immediately achieved a general popularity; the publisher made a fortune out of it, and Cantu's royalties amounted, it is said, to 300, 000 lire (£12, 000). Just before the revolution of 1848, being warned that he would be arrested, he fled to Turin, but after the " Five Days " he returned to Milan and edited a paper called La Guardia Nazionale. Between 1849 and 1850 he published his Storia degli Ilaliani (Turin, 1855) and many other works. In 1857 the archduke Maximilian tried to conciliate the Milanese by the promise of a constitution, and Cantu was one of the few Liberals who accepted the olive branch, and went about in company with the archduke. This act was regarded as treason and caused Cantu much annoyance in after years. He continued his literary activity after the formation of the Italian kingdom, producing volume after volume until his death. . For a short time he was member of the Italian parliament; he founded the Lombard historical society, and was appointed superintendent of the Lombard archives.
Works
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Las Cruzadas: Leyendas y Mitos (Spanish Edition)
(Las cruzadas se convirtieron en la gran gesta de la crist...)
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Il Sacro Macello di Valtellina (Italian Edition)
(Il Sacro Macello di Valtellina)
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Margherita Pusterla (Italian Edition)
(Margherita Pusterla)
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Las Cruzadas: Leyendas y Mitos (Spanish Edition)
Views
Cantu's views are coloured by strong religious and political prejudice, and by a moralizing tendency, and his historical work has little critical value and is for the most part pure book-making, although he collected a vast amount of material which has been of use to other writers. In dealing with modern Italian history he is reactionary and often wilfully inaccurate.
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Political Party
Lega Lombarda
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