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CESARE (kän-tö'), an Italian historian; born in Brivio, Lombardy, Dec. 2, 1805. Imprisoned for political causes in 1833, employed his leisure in writing a historical romance, "Margherita Pusterla" (1838), one of the most successful of modern Italian romances; it gives a graphic picture of prison life. He wrote numerous historical and biographical works; his "Universal History" (35 vols.) has passed through several editions, and has been translated into other la languages. He died near Milan, March 11, 1895.