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"Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino" by Samuel Butler Though Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, he was also a well-versed traveler. In this book, he takes readers into Northern Italy and the Alps to visit the religious churches and sanctuaries located there. From Faido to Fusio, readers are taken on a journey through this frigid yet charming landscape to see why so many people chose there as their refuge.
The Sacro Monte (Holy Mountain) at Varallo is a sanctuary in the Italian Alps west of Milan. It was founded in the late fifteenth century by a Franciscan friar, with the support of the town's leading families. He designed it as a schematic replica of Jerusalem, to enable the faithful to make a virtual pilgrimage to the Holy City if they could not undertake the perilous journey to visit it physically. The Sacro Monte consists of a sequence of chapels containing tableaux of life-size painted terra-cotta figures with fresco backgrounds recounting the life and Passion of Christ. A century later, in the era of the Counter-Reformation, a 'second wave' of Sacri Monti was constructed in the north-western Alps, modelled on Varallo, but dedicated to other devotional themes, like the Rosary or the life of St Francis. All these sanctuaries, like Varallo, were the result of local initiatives, initiated by the clergy and the leaders of the communities where they were situated. Like Varallo, they were the work of artists and craftsmen from the alpine valleys, or from nearby Lombardy. Long dismissed as folk art unworthy of serious critical attention, the Sacri Monti are now recognised as monuments of unique artistic significance. In 2003 UNESCO listed nine of them in its register of World Heritage Sites. This book studies their development as the products of the religious sensibilities and the social, economic, and political conditions of the mountain communities that created them.
Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic author, whose Utopian novel ‘Erewhon’ satirised numerous aspects of Victorian society, influencing science-fiction and modern masterpieces. This comprehensive eBook presents Butler’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Butler’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL the novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare non-fiction works appearing in digital print for the first time * Includes Butler’s note-books - spend hours exploring the author’s many works * The Homeric translations * Features a bonus biography - discover Butler’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels EREWHON: OR OVER THE RANGE EREWHON REVISITED TWENTY YEARS LATER THE WAY OF ALL FLESH The Non-Fiction A FIRST YEAR IN CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT THE EVIDENCE FOR THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST, AS GIVEN BY THE FOUR EVANGELISTS, CRITICALLY EXAMINED THE FAIR HAVEN LIFE AND HABIT EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW UNCONSCIOUS MEMORY ALPS AND SANCTUARIES OF PIEDMONT AND THE CANTON TICINO SELECTIONS FROM PREVIOUS WORKS LUCK OR CUNNING AS THE MAIN MEANS OF ORGANIC MODIFICATION? EX VOTO A LECTURE ON THE HUMOUR OF HOMER AND OTHER ESSAYS THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF DR. SAMUEL BUTLER SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS RECONSIDERED THE AUTHORESS OF THE ODYSSEY ESSAYS ON LIFE, ART AND SCIENCE CAMBRIDGE PIECES CANTERBURY PIECES GOD THE KNOWN AND GOD THE UNKNOWN The Epic Poem Translations THE ILIAD OF HOMER, RENDERED INTO ENGLISH PROSE THE ODYSSEY, RENDERED INTO ENGLISH PROSE The Note-Books THE NOTE-BOOKS OF SAMUEL BUTLER The Biography SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL BUTLER, AUTHOR OF EREWHON by Henry Festing Jones Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
This book presents a selection of research papers dealing with the notions of travel and identity in Anglophone literature and culture. Collectively, the chapters ponder such notions as self and other, race, centre and periphery, thus shedding new light on a number of issues that are highly relevant in the context of the ongoing migration crisis. The contributors employ a diverse range of theoretical standpoints – from close reading to deconstruction, from historically informed approaches to linguistic analysis – and thus offer a nuanced panorama of these issues, especially from the nineteenth century onwards.
Samuel Butler, Victorian against the Grain is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that provides a critical overview of Butler's career, one which places his multifaceted body of work within the cultural framework of the Victorian age.