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 work in turn cites: de Gubernatis, Dictionnaire international des écrivains du jour (Florence, 1888)