COSENZ, kilStillZ, ENRICO (1820-98). An Italian soldier, born at Gaeta. He entered the military service of Naples in 1S40, participated in the campaign in Upper Italy (1848), and afterwards was prominent in the defense of Venice against the Austrians. In 1859 he became a col onel in the 'Hunters of the Alps,' Garibaldi's corps, and in 1860 took part in the expedition to Sicily. Upon Garihaldi's assumption of the Dic tatorship of Naples, he was appointed Minister of War. He commanded a division in the attack on Rome in 1870, and from 18S1 until his retire ment in 1893 was chief of the General Staff of the Italian Army. Ile also held civil office as a Deputy from 1860. and Senator from 1872.
COSENZA, 1:6-s5n'zd (Lot, Cosentia). The capital of the Province of Cosenza (Calabria Citeriore), in South Italy, situated 120 miles southwest of Taranto (Map: Italy, L 8). It is commanded by a castle, whose walls, nine feet thick, were shattered in the earthquakes of 1783, 1854, and 1870. The older and lower part of the town is very malarious in sum mer. The cathedral, now being restored accord
ing to the discovered ancient plans, contains the tomb of Louis III. of Anjou, who died here in 1435. In the attractive public gardens, near the prefecture and the new theatre, are a figure of Liberty by Giuseppe Paohioni, erected in 1879 to the brothers Bandiera and others who took part in the Calabrian rebellion of 1844, and busts of Garibaldi, Cavour, and Mazzini. There are a seminary, a royal college, a technical school, two academies of science and fine arts, and a chamber of commerce. Cosenza markets silk, oil, wine, manna, hemp, grain, and honey, and manufactures faience and hardware. Alaric, King of the Visigoths, died here in 410 while on his way to Sicily after the spoliation of Rome. Tradition has it that he and his treasures were bur ied just below the town in the Busento (ancient Buxentius) where the Crati joins it—a spot now marked by the Polite Alerieo. Population (com mune) in 1881, 16,253; in 1901 21.545.