council of war which, having its headquarters at Casa Taverna, directed the operations of the insurgents. He was second to none in self-sacrificing energy and heroic resolution. When on the 18th of March Field Marshal Radetzky, feeling that the position of the Austrian garrison was untenable, sounded the rebels as to their terms, some of the leaders were inclined to agree to an armistice which would give time for the Piedmontese troops to arrive (Piedmont had just declared war), but Cattaneo insisted on the complete evacuation of Lombardy. Again on the 21st, Radetzky tried to obtain an armistice, and Durini and Borromeo were ready to grant it, for it would have enabled them to reorganize the defences and replenish the supplies of food and ammunition, which could only last another day. But Cattaneo replied: “The enemy having furnished us with munitions thus far, will continue to furnish them. Twenty-four hours of victuals and twenty-four hours of hunger will be many more hours than we shall need. This evening, if the plans we have just arranged should succeed, the line of the bastions will be broken. At any rate, even though we should lack bread, it is better to die of hunger than on the gallows.” On the expulsion of the Austrians the question arose as to the future government of Milan and Italy. Cattaneo was an uncompromising republican and a federalist; so violent was his dislike of the Piedmontese monarchy that when he heard that King Charles Albert had been defeated by the Austrians, and that Radetzky was marching back to reoccupy Milan, he exclaimed: “Good news, the Piedmontese have been beaten. Now we shall be our own masters; we shall fight a people’s war, we shall chase the Austrians out of Italy, and set up a Federal Republic.” When the Austrians returned Cattaneo had to flee, and took refuge at Lugano, where he gave lessons, wrote his Storia della Rivoluzione del 1848, the Archivio triennale delle cose d’ Italia (3 vols., 1850–1855), and then early in 1860 he started the Politecnico once more. He bitterly attacked Cavour for his unitarian views, and for the cession of Nice and Savoy. In 1860 Garibaldi summoned him to Naples to take part in the government of the Neapolitan provinces, but he would not agree to the union with Piedmont without local autonomy. After the union of Italy he was frequently asked to stand for parliament, but always refused because he could not conscientiously take the oath of allegiance to the monarchy. In 1868 the pressure of friends overcame his resistance, and he agreed to stand, but at the last moment he drew back, still unable to take the oath, and returned to Lugano, where he died in 1869. As a writer Cattaneo was learned and brilliant, but far too bitter a partisan to be judicious, owing to his narrowly republican views; his ideas on local autonomy were perhaps wise, but, at a moment when unity was the first essential, inopportune.
Bibliography.—A. and J. Mario, Carlo Cattaneo (Florence, 1884); E. Zanoni, Carlo Cattaneo nella vita e nelle opere (Rome, 1898); see also his own Opere edite ed inedite (7 vols., Florence, 1881–1892), Scritti politici ed epistolari (3 vols., Florence, 1892–1901), Scritti storici, letterari (Milan, 1898, &c.).
CATTARO (Serbo-Croatian Kotor), the chief town of an
administrative district in Dalmatia, Austria. Pop. (1900) of
town, 3021; of commune, 5418. Cattaro occupies a narrow
ledge between the Montenegrin Mountains and the Bocche di
Cattaro, a winding and beautiful inlet of the Adriatic Sea. This
inlet expands into five broad gulfs, united by narrower channels,
and forms one of the finest natural harbours in Europe. Teodo,
on the outermost gulf, is a small naval port. Cattaro is strongly
fortified, and about 3000 troops are stationed in its neighbourhood.
On the seaward side, the defensive works include Castelnuovo
(Erceg Novi), which guards the main entrance to the Bocche.
On the landward side, the long walls running from the town
to the castle of San Giovanni, far above, form a striking feature
in the landscape; and the heights of the Krivoscie or Crevoscia
(Krivošije), a group of barren mountains between Montenegro,
Herzegovina and the sea, are crowned by small forts. Cattaro
is divided almost equally between the Roman Catholic and
Orthodox creeds. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop,
with a small cathedral, a collegiate church and several convents.
The transit trade with Montenegro is impeded by high tariffs
on both sides of the frontier. Foreign visitors to Montenegro
usually land at Cattaro, which is connected by steamer with
Trieste and by road with Cettigne. The railway from Ragusa
terminates at Zelenika, near Castelnuovo.
There are many interesting places on the shores of the Bocche. Castelnuovo is a picturesque town, with a dismantled 14th-century citadel, which has, at various times, been occupied by Bosnians, Turks, Venetians, Spaniards, Russians, French, English and Austrians. The orthodox convent of St Sava, standing amid beautiful gardens, was founded in the 16th century, and contains many fine specimens of 17th-century silversmiths’ work. There is a Benedictine monastery on a small island opposite to Perasto (Perast), 8 m. east of Castelnuovo. Perasto itself was for a time an independent state in the 14th century. Rhizon, the modern hamlet of Risano, close by, was a thriving “Illyrian” city as early as 229 B.C., and gave its name to the Bocche, then known as Rhizonicus Sinus. Rhizon submitted to Rome in 168 B.C., and about the same time Ascrivium, or Ascruvium, the modern Cattaro, is first mentioned as a neighbouring city. Justinian built a fortress above Ascrivium in A.D. 535, after expelling the Goths, and a second town probably grew up on the heights round it, for Constantine Porphyrogenitus, in the 10th century, alludes to “Lower Cattaro” τὸ κάτω Δεκάτερα. The city was plundered by the Saracens in 840, and by the Bulgarians in 1102. In the next year it was ceded to Servia by the Bulgarian tsar Samuel, but revolted, in alliance with Ragusa, and only submitted in 1184, as a protected state, preserving intact its republican institutions, and its right to conclude treaties and engage in war. It was already an episcopal see, and, in the 13th century, Dominican and Franciscan monasteries were established to check the spread of Bogomilism. In the 14th century the commerce of Cattaro rivalled that of Ragusa, and provoked the jealousy of Venice. The downfall of Servia in 1389 left the city without a guardian, and, after being seized and abandoned by Venice and Hungary in turn, it passed under Venetian rule in 1420. It was besieged by the Turks in 1538 and 1657, visited by plague in 1572, and nearly destroyed by earthquakes in 1563 and 1667. By the treaty of Campo-Formio in 1797 it passed to Austria; but in 1805, by the treaty of Pressburg, it was assigned to Italy, and was united in 1810 with the French empire. In 1814 it was restored to Austria by the congress of Vienna. The attempt to enforce compulsory military service, made and abandoned in 1869, but finally successful in 1881, led to two short-lived revolts among the Krivoscians, during which Cattaro was the Austrian headquarters.
See G. Gelcich (Gelčić), Memorie storiche sulle Bocche di Cattaro (Zara, 1880).
CATTEGAT, or Kattegat (Scand. “cat’s-throat”), a strait
forming part of the connexion between the Baltic and the North
Seas. It lies north and south between Sweden and Denmark,
and connects north with the Skagerrack and south through the
Sound, the Great Belt and the Little Belt with the Baltic Sea. Its
length is about 150 m. and its extreme breadth about 90 m.
CATTERMOLE, GEORGE (1800–1868), English painter,
chiefly in water-colours, was born at Dickleburgh, near Diss,
Norfolk, in August 1800. At the age of sixteen he began working
as an architectural and topographical draughtsman; afterwards
he contributed designs to be engraved in the annuals then so
popular; thence he progressed into water-colour painting,
becoming an associate of the Water-Colour Society in 1822, and a
full member in 1833. In 1850 he withdrew from active connexion
with this society, and took to painting in oil. His most fertile
period was between 1833 and 1850. At the Paris exhibition of
1855 he received one of the five first-class gold medals awarded
to British painters. He also enjoyed professional honours in
Amsterdam and in Belgium. He died on the 24th of July 1868.
Among his leading works are “The Murder of the Bishop of
Liége” (15th century), “The Armourer relating the Story of
the Sword,” “The Assassination of the Regent Murray by
Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh,” and (in oil) “A Terrible Secret.”
