A Contender for the Paternity of the Plan
 (PISA, Italia, Monday 15 April 2002, 12: 15 ) Il Nuovo by Gabriele Masiero PISA- The Tower is healthy, but there continues talk of her and of her care and this time it will occupy the court of Pisa directly. Two Carraresi, Luciano Baldacci and Flavio Gabrielli, respectively an international expert in the planning of bridges and a dealer that manages an alimetary shop with a passion for technical applications, cahllenge the paternity of the plan of subexcavation put in practice by the international scientific committee presided over by professor Michele Jamiolkowski and that in eleven years has "straightened" the bell tower of Bonanno Pisano by about 40 centimeters , restoring stability for the next 2-3 centuries. Now the last word will be up to the Court that has named an expert who will compare the two plans: that of the Carraresi and that of the committee and then in May will pronounce a verdict. It could spring an uncomfortable truth at least. But Jamiolkowski does not seem too worried: "the idea of the subexcavation goes back to 1962", he explains, "and it was a Terracina engineer from Rome that published it in an English magazine. We have been inspired by that plan." Article translated by Gary Feuerstein, 9 June 2002 from the Il Nuovo article. |
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