Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

campanile (L.L.: campana, bell ) The form of bell tower which was developed by Lombard architects and has prevailed in Italy ; usually a tall slender tower, more or less detached from the church, without buttresses and crowned with a turret containing the belfry chamber. The town hall of Siena is an example of civic … Continue reading “Campanile (2)”

Campani, Giuseppe An Italian optician and astronomer who lived in Rome during the latter half of the seventeenth century. His brother, Matteo Campani-Alimensis, and he weere experts in grinding and polishing lenses, especially those of great focal length and slight curvature. These lenses were used in long telescopes of considerable power. The astronomer Cassini made … Continue reading “Campani, Giuseppe”

Campanella, Tommaso (Baptized GIOVANNI DOMENICO) Dominican philosopher and writer, b. 5 Sept. 1568 at Stilo in the province of Calabria, Italy; d. at Paris, 21 May, 1639. He was a facile writer of prose and verse at the age of thirteen, and when not yet fifteen entered the Dominican Order, attracted by the fame of … Continue reading “Campanella, Tommaso”

Campanella, Thomas was born in Calabria 1568, and entered the Dominican order 1594. He applied himself chiefly to metaphysics, and followed his countryman Telesio, who died in 1588 at Cosenza, in his .,opposition to what was then taught in the schools under the name of Aristotelian philosophy. Campanella published his first work at Naples in … Continue reading “Campanella, Thomas”

Campanella, Angelo a Roman engraver, was born about 1748. He engraved several plates for G. Hamilton’s Scholia Italica, and the statues of the Twelve Apostles in St. John of Lateran. He died in 1815. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Campanarius (Bell-Ringer) His special office in a church is perhaps not mentioned in the literature of the first seven centuries. In more ancient times the duty of ringing the bells at the proper seasons seems to have been laid upon the priests themselves (Capitulare Episcop. c. 8; Capit. Caroli Magni, lib. vi, c. 168). To … Continue reading “Campanarius (Bell-Ringer)”

Campanarium Or Campanile (Lat. campana, hell), a bell-tower. The most striking campaniles are found in Italy, and they are those generally detached from the church, e.g. those of Florence, Cremona, Bologna, and’ Pisa. That of Florence, built by Giotto (1334),’ is a square 45 feet on each side and 267 feet high, in Italian Gothic, … Continue reading “Campanarium Or Campanile”

Campanaio, Lorenzo Di Lodovico (surnamed Lorenzetto), an Italian sculptor and architect, was born at Florence in 1494, and at an early age was commissioned to complete the tomb of cardinal Forteguerri, in the church of San Giacomo, at Pistoja. He. was also employed upon the tomb of cardinal Chigi in the church of Santa Maria, … Continue reading “Campanaio, Lorenzo Di Lodovico”

Campana, Alberto a Florentine Dominican, was professor of philosophy at Pisa, and afterwards of theology at Padua, where he died, Sept. 24, 1639, leaving a metrical translation of the Pharsalia, in Italian (Venice, 1600). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Campana (Ital. bell), a name used first as a Latin term by Bede, in the 7th century, and employed generally afterwards, to denote the bells used in churches, to summon the people to public worship. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature