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Article: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY FLORENCE LAUNCHES NEW BOOK SERIES WITH DRAMATIC PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY ON GREAT FLOOD OF FLORENCE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 26, 2006
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Syracuse University issued the following press release:
On Nov. 4, 1966, Florence, Italy, experienced the most devastating flood in its history, which crippled the city, killing at least 30 people and destroying many of the world's art treasures. On that day, Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna, a 26-year-old American artist living in Florence, went out into the flooded streets and photographed the dramatic unfolding events.
"I awoke at daybreak to the sounds of the rushing river, and I saw the river beginning to spill onto the Lungarno," says Kraczyna, who now teaches at Syracuse University in Florence (SUF). "I got dressed and with my camera in my hand I climbed over the rooftops to the other ...