Bonanno Pisano

Giorgio Vasari attributed the realization of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to him in his Vite.

In the 1180s, he departed for Monreale, in Sicily, where he completed the doors to the cathedral before returning to Pisa, where he died.

Pisano was buried at the foot of the leaning tower, where his sarcophagus was discovered in 1820.

From 1186 on, he constructed the San Ranieri door, at the southern transept of the Duomo, depicting the main episodes of the Life of Christ.

The Italian-American mafia boss Joseph Bonanno claimed to be a descendant of Pisano,[1] and was known to joke about the Leaning Tower of Pisa saying that "even that was crooked".