Basílica de Santa Croce (s. XIII), Florència
By
1989, Graziella Magherini, a psychiatrist working at the Santa Maria Nuova
hospital, had observed so many cases of foreigners quite literally collapsing
from too much art that she labelled the phenomenon 'Stendhal's Syndrome', after
an episode in the novelist's diary in wich he recalled suffering palpitations
and a falling sensation during a visit to the basilica of Santa Croce in 1817.
David
Leavitt Florence. A Delicate Case,
Nova York, 2002
