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was present, there were several speeches and, when we were coming
down the slippery mountain path after it was all over, he said to
me:
"You know, there's nothing for it now but to write that book about
the Sacro Monte at once. It must be the next thing I do."
Accordingly, on returning home, he took up photography and,
immediately after Christmas, went back to Varallo to photograph the
statues and collect material. Much research was necessary and many
visits to out-of-the-way sanctuaries which might have contained work
by the sculptor Tabachetti, whom he was rescuing from oblivion and
identifying with the Flemish Jean de Wespin. One of these visits,
made after his book was published, forms the subject of "The
Sanctuary of Montrigone," reproduced in this volume. Ex Voto, the
book about Varallo, appeared in 1888, and an Italian translation by
Cavaliere Angelo Rizzetti was published at Novara in 1894.
"Quis Desiderio . . .?" the second essay in this volume, was
developed in 1888 from something in a letter from Miss Savage nearly
ten years earlier.


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