Cantù, Cæsare, an Italian historian, born in Lombardy; imprisoned by the Austrian government for his bold advocacy of liberal views, but at length liberated; wrote, among a number of other works, literary as well as historical, a “Universal History” in 35 vols. (1807‒1895).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Canton, John * Canute