SUMMARY: 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, Flo
Dark Water Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces
β Scribed by Clark, Robert
- Book ID
- 107045949
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385528344
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Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement. Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city's greatest flood and its afte
SUMMARY: 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, F
SUMMARY: 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, F
SUMMARY: 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, F
### From Publishers Weekly The Arno River flood that deluged Florence, Italy, in 1966Π²Πβkilling 33 people and damaging 14,000 works of art and countless books and antiquesΠ²Πβframes this meditation on the relationship between art and life. Clark (*River of the West*) embarks first on a leisurely his