Campanile
a tower for the reception of bells, principally used for church purposes, but now sometimes for CAMPANULA domestic edifices. The campanile at Cremona is very celebrated, being 395 feet high. That at Florence, by Giotto, is 267 feet high and 45 feet square. The most remarkable of the campaniles is that at Pisa, commonly called the "Leaning Tower." It is cylindrical in form, and surrounded by eight stories of columns, placed over one another, each having its entablature. The height is about 150 feet to the platform, whence a plumbline lowered falls on the leaning side nearly 13 feet outside the base of the building.
The famous campanile of St. Mark's, Venice, begun in 874, completed in 1150, and remodeled in 1517, fell in 1902, but has been re-erected to conform to its appearance in 1517. CAMPANINI,