The Bells
In Giotto's campanile there are seven bells:
- Campanone ("biggest bell"): 1705, diameter 2 m, height 2.10 m, c. 5300 kg, note A2, cast by A. Bruscoli e C. Cenni
- La Misericordia ("mercy bell"): 1670, diameter 1.52 m, 1817 kg, note C3, cast by G.Santoni
- Apostolica: 1957, diameter 1.25 m, 1200 kg, Note D3, cast by P. Barigozzi
- Annunziata: 1956, diameter 1.15 m, 856.5 kg, Note E3, cast by P. Barigozzi
- Mater Dei ("God's Mother bell"), 1956, diameter 95 cm, 481.3 kg, note G3, cast by P. Barigozzi
- L'Assunta, 1956, diameter 85 cm, 339.6 kg, Note A3, cast by P. Barigozzi
- L'Immacolata, 1956, diameter 75 cm, 237.8 kg, Note B3, cast by P. Barigozzi
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Famous quotes containing the word bells:
“See the wild birds on the wing,
Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
When you feel like singin’, sing—
Keep a-goin’!”
—Frank Lebby Stanton (1857–1927)
“O he did whistle and she did sing,
And all the bells on earth did ring
For joy our Saviour Christ was born
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)