Cesnola

Cesnola, COUNT LUIGI PALMA DI, archaeologist, was born near Turin, June 29, 1832. He served with the Sardinian contingent in the Crimean war, went to New York in 1860, and served as a volunteer in the civil war. Appointed American consul at Cyprus in 1865, he commenced a series of excavations which he continued for about ten years with the most remarkable success. His splendid collection of statues and figures, lamps, vases, inscriptions, and other antiquities, was opened in New York in 1872 as the 'Cesnola Collection of Cyprian Antiquities.' Doubts expressed in 1879 as to the authenticity of part of the collection were proved to be groundless. His chief work is Cyprus, its ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples (1877).