Bonanno

an Italian architect and sculptor of the 12th century. In 1174 he commenced, with Wilhelm of Innsbruck, the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. He was also the designer of the celebrated bronze doors of the cathedral of that city, which were, all but one, destroyed by a conflagration in 1596. Bonaparte (pronounced in Italian in four syllables; in French and English in three), the name of a famous family, which was spelt Buonaparte by the Emperor Napoleon and _ his father till 1796, though the more usual, modern form also occurs in old Italian documents. In the 13th century and afterward, several families named Bonaparte figure with distinction in Italian records —at Florence, San Mini a to, Sarzano, and Genoa. But_as the ngme of Bonaparte occurs in Corsica as early as the 10th century, it is probable that the island may have been their original home. In the 16th century mention is again found of the Bonapartes in Corsica, where in Ajaccio they occupied a respectable position as a patrician or leading family. In the 18th century this family was represented by three male descendants, all residing at Ajaccio: the archdeacon, Luctmn Bona- PARTE; his brother, NaPoLron BoNna- PARTE; and his nephew, CHARLES.