Michele Giuseppe Canale (1808-1890) was an Italian
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...
.
Biography
He was born in
Genoa
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, and through
Cavour's influence secured the professorship of history and geography at Genoa's Polytechnic Institute. In 1858 he founded the Società Ligure di Storia Patria, a society to promote the study of national history.
Work
His most important publication was the ''Storia della repubblica di Genova'' (Vols. I.-V., 1858–74).
References
* This work in turn cites:
** de Gubernatis, ''Dictionnaire international des écrivains du jour'' (Florence, 1888)
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1808 births
1890 deaths
19th-century Italian historians
Writers from Genoa
People from the Kingdom of Sardinia