“Etna 1669. Lava stories 350 years after the great eruption” is the volume that retraces, from a historical and scientific point of view, the extraordinary event that shocked the territory and the lives on the slopes of the volcano
Monday 19 February 2024, At the Villa San Xavier of Higher School of the University of Catania (UNICT), the presentation of the volume will be held “Etna 1669. Lava stories 350 years after the great eruption”.
The text, published by Sicilian region, represents the final product of the long series of events which, since 2019, have celebrated the 350 years sinceevent that shocked the Etna area and its populations.
THENational Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) contributed to the creation of the volume by editing the scientific and historical aspects of the eruption and making the specialist research available to the public which, over the years, has made it an institution of excellence in the international volcanological panorama.
“The eruption of 1669 represents one of the most important events in the history of Italian volcanology of the last millennium”, explains Stefano Branca, Director of the INGV Etna Observatory (OE-INGV), among the authors of the volume.
“The book that will be presented in Catania recounts this extraordinary eruption with various essays written by INGV researchers who reconstruct the volcano from a volcanological point of view complex eruptive phenomenon , seismic sequence associated with magmatic intrusion, as well as the effects ofterritorial and anthropic impact of the eruption in the short and long term and the dissemination of journalistic reports contemporary events that made Etna and its eruption, for the first time, a media phenomenon of international scope.
The book was also an opportunity to describe a contemporary geophysical application aimed at preserving the architectural heritage of ancient Church of the Madonna delle Grazie of Misterbianco (CT), partly spared at the time by the eruption".
The cultural and scientific path that led to the publication of the volume “Etna 1669” it represented a moment of great discussion and collaboration between the various institutional components of the Catania community.
“The hope is that this volume can represent a starting point for keep memory and knowledge alive of the historical eruptions of Etna and, above all, to increase the awareness of volcanic and seismic hazards of the Sicilian territory, constantly monitored thanks to the monitoring systems of the INGV Etna Observatory"he concludes White.
Link to the event program.
Useful links:
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Monday 19 February 2024, At the Villa San Xavier of Higher School of the University of Catania (UNICT), the presentation of the volume will be held “Etna 1669. Lava stories 350 years after the great eruption”.
The text, published by Sicilian region, represents the final product of the long series of events which, since 2019, have celebrated the 350 years sinceevent that shocked the Etna area and its populations.
THENational Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) contributed to the creation of the volume by editing the scientific and historical aspects of the eruption and making the specialist research available to the public which, over the years, has made it an institution of excellence in the international volcanological panorama.
“The eruption of 1669 represents one of the most important events in the history of Italian volcanology of the last millennium”, explains Stefano Branca, Director of the INGV Etna Observatory (OE-INGV), among the authors of the volume.
“The book that will be presented in Catania recounts this extraordinary eruption with various essays written by INGV researchers who reconstruct the volcano from a volcanological point of view complex eruptive phenomenon , seismic sequence associated with magmatic intrusion, as well as the effects ofterritorial and anthropic impact of the eruption in the short and long term and the dissemination of journalistic reports contemporary events that made Etna and its eruption, for the first time, a media phenomenon of international scope.
The book was also an opportunity to describe a contemporary geophysical application aimed at preserving the architectural heritage of ancient Church of the Madonna delle Grazie of Misterbianco (CT), partly spared at the time by the eruption".
The cultural and scientific path that led to the publication of the volume “Etna 1669” it represented a moment of great discussion and collaboration between the various institutional components of the Catania community.
“The hope is that this volume can represent a starting point for keep memory and knowledge alive of the historical eruptions of Etna and, above all, to increase the awareness of volcanic and seismic hazards of the Sicilian territory, constantly monitored thanks to the monitoring systems of the INGV Etna Observatory"he concludes White.
Link to the event program.
Useful links:
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
