Standing, incredulous, at the window of her pensione on the morning of 4 November 1966, Katherine Kressman Taylor saw the brown torrent of the river Arno rising in the streets.
In her infinitely moving diary, she records how the citizens of Florence strove against the choking sea of mud that engulfed their homes, possessions, shops and art, and the days of isolation that followed without light, food or water.
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