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Published on: 2008-10-07
Released on: 2008-10-07
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This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, in 1966 weaves heartbreaking tales of the disaster and stories of the heroic global efforts to save the city’s treasures against the historic background of Florence’s glorious art.On November 4, 1966, Florence, one of the world’s most historic cities and the repository of perhaps its greatest art, was struck by a monumental calamity. A low-pressure system had been stalled over Italy for six weeks and on the previous day it had begun to rain again. Nineteen inches fell in twenty-four hours, more than half of the annual total. By two o’clock in the morning twenty-thousand cubic feet of water per second was moving towards Florence. Soon manhole covers in Santa Croce were exploding into the air as jets of water began shooting out of the now overwhelmed sewer system. Cellars, vaults, and strong-rooms were filling with water. Night watchmen on the Ponte Vecchio alerted the bridge’s jewelers and goldsmiths to come quickly to rescue their wares. By then the water was moving at forty miles per hour at a height of twenty-four feet. At 7:26 a.m. all of Florence’s electric civic clocks came to a stop. The Piazza Santa Croce was under twenty-two feet of water. Beneath the surface, twelve feet of mud, sewage, debris, and oil sludge were starting to ooze and settle into the cellars and crypts and room after room above them. Six-hundred-thousand tons of it would smother, clot, and encrust the city. Dark Water brings the flood and its aftermath to life through the voices of witnesses past and present. Two young American artists wade heedlessly through the inundated city carrying their baby in order to witness its devastated beauty: the Ponte Vecchio buried in debris and Ghiberti’s panels from the doors of the Florence Baptistery, lying heaped in yard-deep mud; the swamped Uffizi Gallery; and, in the city libraries, one billion pages of Renaissance and antique books, soaked in mire. A Life magazine photographer, stowing away on an army helicopter, arrives to capture a drama that, he felt, “could only be told by Dante” amid the flooded tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo in Giotto and Vasari’s Santa Croce. A British student, one of thousands of “mud angels” who rushed to Florence to save its art, spends a month scraping mud and mold from Cimabue’s magnificent and neglected Crocifisso as intrigues and infighting among international art experts and connoisseurs swirl around him. And during the fortieth anniversary commemorations of 2006 the author asks himself why art matters so very much to us, and how beauty seems to somehow save the world even in the face of overwhelming disaster. Archives - Philly.com Archives and past articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com. Plays - Drama Online Sign Up now for personal tools: So you can... Bookmark content; Make notes against the text; Group your bookmarks and notes with labels; View your search history News Stream - CNN.com Anchored by Kristie Lu Stout from Hong Kong News Stream is a one hour news program powered by the smart use of technology to give viewers a better understanding of ... Rimbaud Arthur (18541891) - Les Illuminations After the Flood (Illuminations I: Aprs le Dluge) A Flood in Lyon Louis-Antoine Froissart (French 1815 - 1860) Getty Open Content Program Essay Writing Service - EssayErudite.com Custom Writing ... We provide excellent essay writing service 24/7. Enjoy proficient essay writing and custom writing services provided by professional academic writers. Lord Frederick Leighton - Hoocher Self Portrait of Lord Frederick Leighton. Frederic Leighton 1st Baron Leighton was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical biblical and ... CBC Archives CBC Digital Archives . HOME; Categories . Arts & Entertainment. Architecture. Moshe Safdie: Hero of Habitat; Architects and Buildings; Dance. Karen Kain Prima Ballerina News Tribune Central MO Breaking News Should the Jefferson City Council amend its vehicle-for-hire ordinance to allow companies like Uber to operate in the city anytime? Exodus Sermons Precept Austin Exodus 3:1-12 The Angel In The Bush Rob Morgan. Today we are continuing our studies on the subject of Christ in the book of Exodus and our text from Exodus 3:1-12 is ... Day Poems : Walt Whitman: Song of Myself To link to this poem put the URL below into your page: a href="daypoems.net/poems/1900.html"Song of Myself by Walt Whitman/a Plain for Printing
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