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Arcadia Alpina - Costumes of the Upper Susa Valley - cahier n°32
The Arcadia Alpina is a novel written by Cavalier Enrico Faure from Sauze d'Oulx, published in 1906.
The reissue of Arcadia Alpina in the Cahier dell'ecomuseo Colombano Romean series is an opportunity to discover a peasant world that has now been forgotten and that characterized the Upper Dora Valley between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
In Faure's work, we find described the agricultural work, tools, the life of a community in its daily life, folklore traditions, beliefs, superstitions, religious rituals with their syncretisms, and sometimes we cannot help but smile at the naivety of the characters that reflects the simplicity and cruelty of that harsh peasant world, but at the same time, we cannot help but be moved and sometimes touched by the narration of that rustic landscape, that Arcadia so skillfully evoked and described because it was experienced firsthand by the author. These are the words of Renato Sibille, who edited the reissue and gave new life to the work with his comments, a rich glossary of less common, antiquated, obsolete terms, idioms, or specific meanings given by Faure and the complete biography of Professor Faure reconstructed through documents consulted in the historical archives of the Municipalities of Oulx and Sauze d'Oulx, the consortium school of Oulx, the Parish of San Giovanni Battista in Sauze d'Oulx, and the Diocese of Susa, as well as information taken from local periodicals of the time and various publications.
How to order:
The book is available at the Park's offices and during local events and fairs.
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