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This etext was prepared by David Price, email [email protected]
from the 1913 A. C. Fifield edition with some portions taken from the
1881 edition. Many thanks to Paul Schwoerer for his invaluable help in
locating an 1881 edition for UK copyright clearance.

ALPS AND SANCTUARIES OF PIEDMONT AND THE CANTON
TICINO
by Samuel Butler

Author's Preface to First Edition

I should perhaps apologise for publishing a work which professes to
deal with the sanctuaries of Piedmont, and saying so little about the
most important of them all--the Sacro Monte of Varallo. My excuse
must be, that I found it impossible to deal with Varallo without making
my book too long. Varallo requires a work to itself; I must, therefore,
hope to return to it on another occasion.
For the convenience of avoiding explanations, I have treated the events
of several summers as though they belonged to only one. This can be of
no importance to the reader, but as the work is chronologically inexact,
I had better perhaps say so.
The illustrations by Mr. H. F. Jones are on pages 95, 211, 225, 238, 254,
260. The frontispiece and the illustrations on the title-page and on
pages 261, 262 are by Mr. Charles Gogin. There are two drawings on
pages 136, 137 by an Italian gentleman whose name I have
unfortunately lost, and whose permission to insert them I have,
therefore, been unable to obtain, and one on page 138 by Signor
Gaetano Meo. The rest are mine, except that all the figures in my
drawings are in every case by Mr. Charles Gogin, unless when they are

merely copied from frescoes or other sources. The two larger views of
Oropa are chiefly taken from photographs. The rest are all of them from
studies taken upon the spot.
I must acknowledge the great obligations I am under to Mr. H. F. Jones
as regards the letterpress no less than the illustrations; I might almost
say that the book is nearly as much his as mine, while it is only through
the care which he and another friend have exercised in the revision of
my pages that I am able to let them appear with some approach to
confidence.
November, 1881.

CHAPTER I
--Introduction

Most men will readily admit that the two poets who have the greatest
hold over Englishmen are Handel and Shakespeare--for it is as a poet, a
sympathiser with and renderer of all estates and conditions