Thursday 4 November 2010

Remember, Remember 4 November

Florence, 1966

6 comments:

lilith said...

Shocking.

Nomad said...

Don't let Berlusconi see that; we have already had one "apres moi le deluge"...

Weekend Yachtsman said...

I remember.

Many of those photos are in a book I have - "Florence - the days of the flood"; now out of print, at least in the English version, but available on Amazon and eBay.

hatfield girl said...

There's a photograph of our poor palazzo, standing up to its piano nobile in that peculiarly horrible mixture of flood water, petrol, dead animals and sewage. Most of the underground cantine in Florence are STILL drying out; all the bits of fresco left in our building are painted over - too expensive to restore but preserved for a richer generation, and lots of buildings in their entirety are only now getting over such a soaking. We've only just finished restoration.

I'm very fond of the RAI's old intro to the news.

A florentine said...

I love the chromatic bass line at the end.

It's not just the cantine. Santa Maria degli Angiolini was restored in 2006: the walls took 40 years to dry out properly. And they still haven't sorted out the books. Lots of work still to do...

hatfield girl said...

I gather the poor Florentines (or should that be amazingly rich Florentines?) are still sorting out the mess from Napoleon, never mind the ever-spiteful Aretini.