Arcadia Alpina is a novel written by Cavalier Enrico Faure di 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 which characterized the Upper valley of the Dora between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.
In Faure's work, we find described the agricultural work, the tools, the life of a community in its daily making, the folk traditions, beliefs, superstitions, religious rites with their syncretisms, and sometimes cannot help but 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 by the story of that rural landscape, that Arcadia so skillfully evoked and described as lived firsthand by the author. These are the words of Renato Sibille who oversaw the reissue and gave new life to the work with his comments, a rich glossary of less common, outdated, obsolete words, dialects, or specific meanings given by Faure, and the complete biography of Professor Faure reconstructed through documents consulted in the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 joint school college of Oulx, the Parish of San Giovanni Battista of Sauze d'Oulx, and the Diocese of Susa, as well as information taken from local periodicals of the time and various publications.