Dal Pozzo, 1606
Dal Pozzo, cast in 1606, weighs 652 Kg. (1,434 lbs.)
Photo, Circa 1925. Text on reverse:
A TOWER IN DANGER
The world has been alarmed at the recent reports that the leaning Tower of Pisa, which is one of the seven narvels of the world, is in great danger. A committee has been appointed by the Italian Government to consider what steps should bo taken to avert a disaster, which would be a disaster to the world of art.
It has boon found that a spring of water, upon which the tower was built has become active again causing the soil to subside.
The weight of the Tower is reckoned to exceed 200,000 tons and the declining in the last few years having reached 4 millimetres per annum. A pump is working day and night to extract the water from the foundations. Parts of the walls are crumbling and some of the pillars are badly cracked, due, it is believed to Beock..
PHOTO SHOWS: 220 Feet above street level. The famous bell of the leaning Tower, which was used in the Middle Ages to raise Pisa to war against Florence, still remains in their original state and are rung once a year to celebrate the Italian victory.
From Homosapiensonline :
NEW BELL FOR THE TOWER of PISA (NOTE SOL)
(Pisa, 25 September 2004) The bell "Dal Pozzo" (Archbishop Pozzo, 13th century) of the Tower of Pisa has been replaced, having been damaged by shrapnel during the bombardments of 1944, World War II. It is one of the seven bells, the oldest from the XIV century, that are placed on the summit of the famous leaning bell tower of Bonanno Pisano and it is placed beside "La Pasquareccia," the largest bell on the Tower in Piazza dei Miracoli. The new bell has been placed in context, cast by the Pontificia Marinelli Foundry of Agnone (Isernia). The new bell has a diameter of one meter, weighs 600 kilograms and rings the note sol. In relief it bears the date of 1606, the names and the coats of arms of the bishop of Pisa Carlo Antonio Dal Pozzo, the Medici coat of arms, and that of the city, and a new inscription indicating the new year of the casting. All seven the bells of the Tower of Pisa (five large and two smaller), are lodged in the wall structure at the belfry of the Tower, in openings dedicated for the purpose. The famous leaning monument, unique in the world, was begun in 1173 by Bonanno, and completed in 1350 by the work of Giovanni of Simone and Tommaso Pisano. (br. cr. Pi.; et al.).
Errata: Pasquareccia is the oldest bell, not the largest, dating from 1262 XIII century.
Dal Pozzo had been removed for repairs earlier in 2004.
From Adnkronos News Service:
Pisa, 25 Sept. 2004 - (Adnkronos) – Today, the bell "Dal Pozzo" of the Tower of Pisa was replaced, having been damaged (a vertical crack) during the bombings of the summer of 1944 in World War II. The bell is one of seven, the oldest from the XIV century, placed on the summit of the Leaning Tower beside "La Pasquareccia", the largest of the seven. The new bell, cast by the Papal Foundry Marinelli di Agnone (Isernia) replaces the damaged bell.
Pozzo's bell, so called because the cost was defrayed by archbishop Pozzo in 1616 and it displays the armorial bearings of the Gran Duke, Archbishop of Pozzo, of the Operaio of that time and the Pisan cross.
Del Pozzetto - entitled to the Archbishop Pozzo (Arcivescovo Dal Pozzo)
Archbishop Dal Pozzo built the Reinassance chapel in the Camposanto Monumentale, the building North of the Duomo, crowned by a dome in 1593.
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