Vittorio Novelli









To save the Tower of Pisa Vittorio Novelli, a surveyor from 

Cesena (Forlė), proposes a conceptually simple and inexpensive 

solution that would be quite able to serve the purpose.  



Novelli has conceived (and patented) a system that bridles the 

Tower with 31 steel cables pulled by an appropriate hydraulic 

mechanism. This machinery, checked from electronic devices for 

the amoun of tension, pulls perfectly without damage to the 

monument, it would  progressively straighten the Tower. In the 

same time, an appropriate machine of excavation equipped with 

helical thread would remove soil under the foundations, leveling 

the subbase.  In his presentation Novelli underlines that the 

techniques he employees are simple and tested, and that the 

calculations of the efforts are relatively simple to perform.  



There is not no need, he submits, to apply more sophisticated 

and expensive means. And to those who reproach it as a 

"handicraft" solution,  he insists that, likewise,  the 

builder of the Tower was nothing more that an artisan.







Translation by Gary Feuerstein, 8 March 1998

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