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LUIGI (kä-nē'nä), Italian architect; born in Casale, Piedmont, Oct. 23, 1795; was for some time Professor of Architecture at Turin, and afterward lived in Rome, where he published works of great value on the antiquities of Rome, Veii, Etruria, and Tusculum. He died in Florence, Oct. 17, 1856.

CANINDE (kä-nēn'dā), a river of Brazil, flowing wing into the Parnahiba; length, 200 miles.

CANIS MAJOR ("the greater dog"), a constellation of the Southern hemisphere, remarkable as containing Sirius, the brightest star. - CANIS MINOR ("the lesser dog") is a constellation in the Northern hemisphere, immediately above Canis Major, the chief star in which is Procyon.

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