The Flood of 1966: Florence, Italy
(Alluvione di Firenze del 4 Novembre 1966)
Part 2: Reference Resources
This section of the guide contains Print Reference Books, relevant Databases, and eReference Encyclopedia entries for more information on the Florence Flood of 1966.
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Print Reference Books
Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in Florence – The City of Masterpieces by Robert Clark
On November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement. Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the voices of its witnesses.
Clark, R. (2008). Dark water: Flood and redemption in Florence: The city of masterpieces. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.Dark Water
Flood in Florence, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective
These proceedings feature illustrated, first-person remembrances of the flood; papers on book conservation, the conservation of works of art, disaster preparedness and response, and the continuing needs for education and training.
Conway, M. O. H., & Conway, P. (2018). Flood in Florence, 1966: A fifty-year retrospective. University of Michigan Press. Flood Retrospective
Saving a World Treasure: Protecting Florence from Flooding
The Committee Firenze 2016 invited six engineers and scientists to form an International Technical Scientific Committee (ITSC) to assess the current status of flood protection for the city of Florence and identify steps to reduce the risk of flooding facing the city.
Solari, L., Galloway, G. E., Seminara, G., Montanari, A., Blöschl, G., García, M. H. (2017). Saving a World Treasure: Protecting Florence from Flooding. Italy: Firenze University Press. Saving a World Treasure
Databases
Library & Information Science Source
Includes full text for more than 460 publications and indexing for hundreds of high-quality journals, as well as books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage encompasses librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management. L&ISS
Art & Architecture Complete
Provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books. In addition, this database offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 780 academic journals, magazines, and trade publications, as well as for over 230 books. A&AC
International Bibliography of Art
Provides access to scholarly literature on Western art. Publications include at least 500 core journals, with an emphasis on specialist and rare titles that are not covered by other indexes, plus detailed coverage of monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues. IBA
eReference Books
Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital of Tuscany and of Firenze prov., central Italy, on the Arno River, at the foot of the Apennines. Florence, the jewel of the Italian Renaissance, is one of the world’s great historic cities…
Florence, City, Italy. (2018). In P. Lagasse, & Columbia University, The Columbia encyclopedia (8th ed.). Columbia University Press. Florence
Arno River
The Arno River is the principal stream of the Toscana (Tuscany) region, in central Italy. Rising on the slopes of Monte Falterona in the Tuscan Apennines, it flows for 150 mi to the Ligurian Sea…
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2011, September 26). Arno River. Encyclopedia Britannica. Arno River
Art Conservation and Restoration
It is the preservation of structurally sound works of art, the halting of processes that lead to the damage of works of art, and the repair of already damaged works of art… The flood in Florence, Italy, in Nov. 1966, was among the greatest disasters in modern history in terms of the destruction of works of art. Conservators and restorers from all over the world applied emergency treatment to the treasures of painting, sculpture, and architecture that could be saved.
Art Conservation and Restoration. (2018). In P. Lagasse, & Columbia University, The Columbia encyclopedia (8th ed.). Columbia University Press. Art Conservation
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