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campanile

A term applied to towers erected in close proximity, though not attached, to many churches and town halls in Italy. The earliest examples are at Ravenna (about 9th century). Other famous examples include the campanile of St Mark's, Venice (begun 902); the leaning tower of Pisa (begun 1174); and Giotto's campanile at Florence (1334).

See also belfry.

They were used as components of 19th-century American factory architecture in New England.



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In themselves there is nothing to choose between the Campanile of Giotto and a factory chimney.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Ah, if you could but see my own dear Pisa, the Duomo, the cloisters of Campo Santo, the high Campanile, with the mellow throb of her bells upon the warm Italian air
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
The sudden flashes of colour reminded him of the gleam of the opal-and-iris-throated birds that flutter round the tall honeycombed Campanile, or stalk, with such stately grace, through the dim, dust-stained arcades.
The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar View in context
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