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CESNOLA, LUIGI PALMA DI (1832–1904)

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CESNOLA, See also:LUIGI See also:PALMA DI (1832–1904) , See also:Italian-See also:American soldier and archaeologist, was See also:born near See also:Turin on the 29th of See also:July 183 2. Having served in the See also:Austrian and See also:Crimean See also:Wars, in 186o he went to New See also:York, where he taught Italian and See also:French and founded a military school for See also:officers. He took See also:part in the American See also:Civil See also:War as See also:colonel of a See also:cavalry See also:regiment, and at Aldie (See also:June 1863) was wounded and taken prisoner. He was released from Libby See also:prison See also:early in 1864, served in the See also:Wilderness and See also:Petersburg See also:campaigns (1864–65) as a brigadier of cavalry, and at the See also:close of the war was breveted brigadier-See also:general. He was then appointed See also:United States See also:consul at Larnaca in See also:Cyprus (1865–1877). During his stay in the See also:island he carried on excavations, which resulted in the See also:discovery of a large number of antiquities. The collection was See also:purchased by the See also:Metropolitan Museum of New York, and Cesnola became director in 1879. Doubt having been thrown by Gaston L. Feuerdant, in an See also:article in the New York See also:Herald (See also:August 1880), upon the genuineness of his restorations, the See also:matter was referred to a See also:special See also:committee, which pronounced in his favour?. He is the author of Cyprus, its See also:ancient Cities, Tombs and Temples (1877), an interesting See also:book of travel and of considerable service to the See also:practical See also:antiquary; and of a Descriptive See also:Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities (3 vols., 1884–6). He died in New York on the 21st of See also:November 1904. He was a • For the Cesnola controversy see C.

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Cobham's See also:Attempt at a Bibliography of Cyprus (4th ed., 1900). See also article Cvraus. member of several learned See also:societies in See also:Europe and See also:America, and. in 1899 he received a Congressional See also:medal of See also:honour for conspicuous military services. His See also:brother, ALESSANDRO PALMA DI CESNOLA, born in 1839, conducted excavations at See also:Paphos (where he was U.S. See also:vice-consul) and See also:Salamis on behalf of the See also:British See also:government. The results of these are described in Salaminia (1882).

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