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Arcadia Alpina is a novel written by Cavalier Enrico Faure of Sauze d'Oulx, published in 1906.

The reissue of Arcadia Alpina in the series of Cahier dell'ecomuseo Colombano Romean is an opportunity to discover a peasant world now forgotten that characterized the Upper Dora Valley between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.

In Faure's work, we find described the country works, tools, the life of a community in its daily life, folklore traditions, beliefs, superstitions, religious rituals with their syncretisms, and we cannot help but sometimes smile at the naivety of the characters that reflect the simplicity and cruelty of that harsh peasant world but, at the same time, we cannot help but be moved, and sometimes moved to tears, by the story of that rustic landscape, that Arcadia so skillfully evoked and described as experienced firsthand by the author. These are the words of Renato Sibille who curated the reissue and gave new life to the work with his comments, a rich glossary of less common, antiquated, obsolete words, dialectical expressions or particular meanings given by Faure, and the complete biography of Professor Faure reconstructed through the documents consulted in the historical archives of the Municipalities of Oulx and Sauze d'Oulx, the consortium school college 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.

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Le livre est disponible chez les bureaux du parc et lors des événements et foires locaux.

Arcadia Alpina - Costumes de Haute Vallée de Suse - cahier n°32

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