Michele Giuseppe Canale (1808-1890) was an Italian historian.
Biography
He was born in Genoa, 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 article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Canale, Michele Giuseppe" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905. This work in turn cites:
- de Gubernatis, Dictionnaire international des écrivains du jour (Florence, 1888)