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Samuel Butler. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
Table of Contents
Introduction
Author’s Preface to First Edition
Chapter I. Introduction
Chapter II. Faido
Chapter III. Primadengo, Calpiognia, Dalpe, Cornone, and Prato
Chapter IV. Rossura, Calonico
Chapter V. Calonico (continued) and Giornico
Chapter VI. Piora
Chapter VII. S. Michele and the Monte Pirchiriano
Chapter VIII. S. Michele (continued)
Chapter IX. The North Italian Priesthood
Chapter X. S. Ambrogio and Neighbourhood
Chapter XI. Lanzo
Chapter XII. Considerations on the Decline of Italian Art
Chapter XIII. Viù, Fucine, and S. Ignazio
Chapter XIV. Sanctuary of Oropa
Chapter XV. Oropa (continued)
Chapter XVI. Graglia
Chapter XVII. Soazza and the Valley of Mesocco
Chapter XVIII. Mesocco, S. Bernardino, and S. Maria in Calanca
Chapter XIX. The Mendrisiotto
Chapter XX. Sanctuary on Monte Bisbino
Chapter XXI. A Day at the Cantine
Chapter XXII. Sacro Monte, Varese
Chapter XXIII. Angera and Arona
Chapter XXIV. Locarno
Chapter XXV. Fusio
Chapter XXVI. Fusio Revisited
Appendix A. Wednesbury Cocking (See p. 55)
Appendix B. Reforms Instituted at S. Michele in the year 1478 (See p. 105)
Index
Footnotes
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Samuel Butler
Published by Good Press, 2019
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For some years past I have paid a visit of greater or less length to Faido in the Canton Ticino, which though politically Swiss is as much Italian in character as any part of Italy. I was attracted to this place, in the first instance, chiefly because it is one of the easiest places on the Italian side of the Alps to reach from England. This merit it will soon possess in a still greater degree, for when the St. Gothard tunnel is open, it will be possible to leave London, we will say, on a Monday morning and be at Faido by six or seven o’clock the next evening, just as one can now do with S. Ambrogio on the line between Susa and Turin, of which more hereafter.
True, by making use of the tunnel one will miss the St. Gothard scenery, but I would not, if I were the reader, lay this too much to heart. Mountain scenery, when one is staying right in the middle of it, or when one is on foot, is one thing, and mountain scenery as seen from the top of a diligence very likely smothered in dust is another. Besides I do not think he will like the St. Gothard scenery very much.
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