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Florence Hospital Keeps Fainting Couch Fully Stocked For Art Victims

Staff at Florence's Santa Maria Nuova hospital are accustomed to tourists arriving with dizzy spells and disorientation after viewing Michelangelo's David or the Botticellis in the Uffizi. The condition has a name: Stendhal syndrome , a psychosomatic reaction to great art that…