Carlo Antonio Dal Pozzo (1547–1607) was an Italian prelate, who was

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metropolitan of the

Pisa Pisa ( ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Tuscany, Central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for the Leaning Tow ...

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. He came from the noble family of ''Dal Pozzo Della Cisterna'' of

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. He was the uncle of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Between his many works, he ordered to build the homonym chapel in the Camposanto Monumentale in Pisa (1594), he made the Collegio Puteano to host some students from Piedmont (1605) and he made cast the homonym bell in the leaning tower (1606). A portrait bust of Dal Pozzo was made in 1622-4 by the noted Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. It is now in the National Galleries of Scotland,

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External links

Official site of Pisa Archdiocese
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pozzo, Carlo Antonio Dal Roman Catholic archbishops of Pisa 1547 births 1607 deaths 17th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops 16th-century Italian nobility Carlo Antonio