Index
Abruptness of introduction the measure of importance, 196
Absolute, we would have an absolute standard if we could, 196
Absolutely, nothing is anything, 196
Academies and their influence, 146–59, 226, 248
Academy picture, the desire to paint an, 142
— Ciseri’s, at Locarno, 271
Accidentals, a maze of metaphysical, 23
Action, foundations of, lie deeper than reason, 107
Adaptation and illusion, 44
Adipose cushion of Italy, 92
Advertisements, American, at Locarno, 273
Æstheticism, culture, earnestness, and intenseness, all methods of trying to conceal weakness, 192
Affection a sine quâ non for success, 158
Agape and gnosis, 17
Airolo, 25
Alcohol and imagination, 46
Alda, Il Salto della bella, 104
All things to all men, 66
Allen, Grant, 69
Almoner, the, of S. Michele, 315
Alone, should we like to see a picture when we are, 23, 158
Alpi and monti, difference between, 35
Alpine roads, the steps by which they have advanced, 59
Alps, narrowness of the, 61
Altar cloth, a fine embroidered 256
Altar-piece at Morbio Superiore, 237
Amateurs, wanted a periodical written and illustrated by, 156
Amber, a smile in, 235
Ambrogio, S., and neighbourhood, 113
American advertisements at Locarno, 273
Ancestors, to have been begotten of good ones for many generations, 252
Andermatt, 24
Andorno, 186
Angel, drawing an, down, 42
Angera, 258
Animals and plants, cause of their divergence, 153
Ants near Faido, 38
— and bees, stationary civilisation of, 195
— and their nests, 288
Anzone, the sad torrent of, 220
Apparition, artificial, of the B.V.M., 275
Appliances, creatures and their, 283
Apprenticeship v. the academic system, 150
Arona, 265
Art for art’s sake, 156
— Italian, causes of its decline, 141
— moral effect of, 252
Asbestos on pass between Fusio and Dalpe, 285
Asplenium alternifolium, 37
Ass dressed in sacerdotal robes, 67
Aureggio, 177
Aurora Borealis like pedal notes in Handel’s bass, 83
Avalanches at Mesocco, 222
Avogadro, 148
B.A. degree should be assimilated to M.A., 186
Baby, death of a, bells rung for, 266
Bach as good a musician as Handel, 17
Badgers’ fat, 289
Balaclava, a stuffed Charge of, 251
Ballerini, Mgr., Patriarch of Alexandria, 268, 272
Banda, Casina di, 119
Bank of England note, Italian language on, 19
Barelli, Signer, at Bisbino, 239
Barley, mode of drying, 29
Barratt, Mrs., of Langar, 198
Baskets, helmet-shaped, near Lanzo, 134
Bastianini, 149
Bayeux tapestry, 150
Beaconsfield, Lord, 23, 141, 142
Bears, 75, 223
Beds, good, their moral influence, 184, 186
Bees, stationary civilisation of, 195
Beethoven on Handel, 18
Beginners in art, how to treat them, 155
Bell, Peter, and his primrose, 38, 143
Bellini, the, when, where, and how to get their like again, 146
Bellinzona, 198
Bells, 45, 265, 294
Bergamo, Colleone chapel at, 231
Berkeley, Bishop, and his tar-water, 64
Bernardino, Padre, his inscription on my drawing, 220
Bernardino, San, 223
Biasca, 85
Biella, 169
Bignasco, 278
Bigotry, eating a mode of, 153
Birds, 116
— their names, 291
— their singing, 230
Bisbino, Monte, 233
Bishop, Boy, 67
— welcomed with a brass band, 272
Bleeding times, 312
Blinds, milkmen’s and undertakers’, 145
Blood, circulation of, like people, 20
Bodily mechanism, a town like, 20
Body, soul, and money, 107
Boelini, family of, 213
Bologna, Academy at, 147
Bonvicino, the famiglia, 124
Borromeo, S. Carlo, room in which he was born, 263
Botticelli, Sandro, on landscape painting, 45
Box-trees, clipped, 104, 167
Brebbia, church at, 258
Bridge, the first, 59
Brigand, right to free a, conferred upon Graglia, 189, 193
British Museum and Oropa, 183, 185
Buckley, Miss Arabella, 69
Bullocks, how I lost my, 154
Burrello, Castel, 114
Bussoleno, 114
Butcher, the eructive, 126
Cadagno, Lake of, 81
Cader Idris, an Archbishop on, 89
Calanca, Sta. Maria in, 202, 223
Calonico, 55
Calpiognia, 29, 35
Cama, the æsthetic dog at, 202
Cambridge, a modest proposal to make an Oropa of, 186
Campello, 76
Campo Santo at Calpiognia, 30
— at Mesocco, 204
— at Pisa, 159
Campolungo, Alpe di, 42, 284
Canaries, their song unpleasant, 231
Cantine, a day at the, 243
Canvas of life turned upside down, 68
“Carbonate of pork,” 315
Carracci, the, 147
Casina di Banda, 119
Castelletto, 265
Cavagnago, 76
Cenere, Monte, narcissuses on, 228
Ceres, 161
Cerrea, 133
Chalk, Conté, the Italian for whom this was the one thing needful, 136
Chalk eggs, 43
Chamois, foot of, 283
Change, repudiation of desire for sudden, 186
— importance of, depends on the rate of introduction, 196
— either the circumstances or the sufferer will, 196
Changes, sweeping, to be felt hereafter as vibrations, 60
Cheapissimo, 165
Cheese and the alpi, 289
Cherries, 33, 35, 46
Chestnuts, 118
Chicory and seed onions, weary utterness in, 227
Children, subalpine, 301
— what becomes of the clever, 149
Chinese, the examination-ridden, 151
Chironico, 75
“Chow,” 52
Church-going, subalpine, 303
Circulation of people like blood, 20
Ciseri, his picture at Locarno, 271
Civilisation, antiquity of Italian, 124
— stationary, of ants and bees, 195
Class distinction inevitable, 195
Classification only possible through sense of shock, 63
Clergy, our English, and S. Michele priests, 106
Cloisters at Locarno, 271
— at Oltrona, 258
Club, the, the true university, 155
Cocking, Wednesbury, 55, 305
Collects, unsympathetic priest bristling with, 111
Colleone, Medea, 231
Colma di San Giovanni, 163
Comba di Susa, 119
Comfort as a moral influence 185
Comic song, the landlord’s, 128
Common sense, the safest guide, 108
Consistent, who ever is? 153
Contradictory principles, there must be a harmonious fusing of, 152
Converting things by eating them, 153
Corpses, desiccated, at S. Michele, 97
Cousins, my, the lower animals, 69
Cows fighting in farmyard, 120
Cricco, 125
Cristoforo, S., church of, at Mesocco, 208
— at Castello, 234
Crossing, efficacy of, 152
— unexpected results of, 55
— useless if too wide, 157
Crucifixion, fresco at Fusio, 140
Culture and priggishness, 141
— a mode of concealing weakness, 192
Current feeling, the safest guide, 108
Cutlets, burnt, and the waiter, 124
Dalpe, 38
Dante a humbug, 156
Darwin, Charles, no place for meeting, 69
Darwin, Erasmus, 23, 153
Dazio, Signor Pietro, of Fusio, 279
Death, no man can die to himself, 277
Deceit a necessary alloy of truth, 289
Dedomenici da Rossa, 137–9
Demand and supply, 108
D’Enrico, the brothers, 189
Dentist’s show-case mistaken for relics, 43
Deportment, good technique resembles, 156
Desire and power, 108
Development of power to know our own likes and dislikes, 22
Devil’s Bridge, 23
Diatonic scale, and song of birds in New Zealand, 232
Dirt, eating a peck of moral, 71
Disgrazia and misfortune, 58
D’Israeli, Isaac, quotations from, 67
Dissenters all narrow-minded, 153
Distribution of plants and animals often inexplicable, 135
Diversion of mental images, 54
Doera, fresco at, 145, 221
Dogs, 156, 202, 260, 313
Doing, the only mode of learning, 151
Doors, how they open in time, 151
Doubt, “There lives more doubt in honest faith,” 67
Downs, the South, like Monte Generoso, 230
Draughtsman, first business of a, 148
Drawing, the old manner of teaching, 150
Dream, my, at Lago di Cadagno, 82
Drunkenness and imagination, 46
Dunque, 133
Duso, Agostino, his fresco at Sta. Maria in Calanca, 225
Earnestness, 142, 192
Eating, a mode of bigotry, 153
Echo at Graglia, 192
Edelweiss, 291
Electricity and Alpine roads, 60
Elephant brays a third, 233
“Elongated” honey, 293
Embryonic stages, the artist must go through, 148
Endymion, Lord Beaconsfield’s, 23, 141
English as tract-distributors, 65
— language, its ultimate supremacy, 41
English priests and Italian, 106
— why introspective, 18
Equilibrium only attainable at the cost of progress, 195
Eritis, a panic concerning, 204
Eternal punishment, 111, 196
Eusebius, St., 178
Evolution and illusion, 43
— essence of, consists in not shocking too much, 110
Extreme, every, an absurdity, 153
Faido, 22
Faith, doubt lives in honest, 67
— more assured in the days of spiritual Saturnalia, 68
— foundations of our system based on, 107, 277
— and reason, 108
— catholic, of protoplasm, 152
— a mode of impudence, 283
Falsehood turning to truth, 71
Famine prices at Locarno, 276
Feeling, current, the safest guide, 108
Fertile, rich and poor rarely fertile inter se, 195
Fires, how Italians manage their, 117
Fishmonger choosing a bloater, 23
Flats and sharps, a maze of metaphysical, 23
Fleet Street, beauties of, 19
Flowers, names of, 291
Fossil-soul, 234
Foundations of action lie deeper than reason, 107
— of a durable system laid on faith, 277
Francis, St., and Insurance Co.’s plate, 191
Friction, which prevents the unduly rapid growth of inventions, 60
Fucine, 166
Fun, Italian love of, 243
Fusing and confusing of ideas and structures, 44
— faith and reason, necessity of, 108
Fusing the harmonious, of two contradictory principles, 152
Fusio, 140, 277
Gallows at S. Michele, 104
Garnets, 285
Garrard, 159
Generations, more than one necessary for great things, 87, 188
Generoso, Monte, 229
German influences in Italian valleys, 167
Gesture older and easier than speech, 165
Giacomo, San, 223
Giorio, San, 113
Giornico, 73
Giovanni, San, Colma di, 163
Gladstone, Mr., advised to go to the Grecian pantomime, 68
Gnats, daily swallowing of, 69
Gnosis and Agape, 17
God not angry with the plover for lying, and likes the spider, 70
Goethe a humbug, 156
Gogin, Charles, 204
Gold at the Casina di Banda, 120
Gothard, St., scenery of the pass, 22
— crossing in winter, 24
— the old road, 38
Graglia, 188
Grammar and good technique, 156
Grecian pantomime, Mr. Gladstone recommended to see, 68
Gribbio, 76
Griffin at Temple Bar, 20
Grissino, pane, 135
Groesner, G. W., his picture at S. Maria in Calanca, 225
Groscavallo Glacier, 135
Guglielmoni, 284, 287–92, 298
Habit, the oldest commonly resorted to at a pinch, 165
Hair, no monk to wear his hair more than two fingers broad, 313
Handel and Shakespeare, 17
— and Italy, 19
— how I said he was a Catholic, 69
Handel, his ploughman and his humour, 144
— his paganism and his religious fervour, 191
— the Varese chapels like a set of variations by, 252
— quotations from his music, 31, 34, 83, 84, 99, 200, 282
Harlington, inscription at, 234
Hawks, tame, 116
Hay-making at Piora, 81
Hedgehog, a spiritual, 111
Hen, the meditative, 110
— and chalk eggs, 43
Heresy and heretics, 152
Hieroglyph of a lost soul, 147
Holidays like a garden, 69
Holiness a Semitic characteristic, 142
Honey, the “elongation” of, 293
Hooghe, P. de, 267
Humbugs, the seven, 156
Humour, Italian love of, 243
— Leonardo da Vinci’s, 144
Huxley, 69
Ignazio, S., 161
Illusion and evolution, 43
— and fusion, 54
Images, mental diversion of the, 54
— worship of, 251
Imagination and bells, Leonardo da Vinci on, 45
Immortality, 23, 277
Imperfection the only true perfection, 138
Impossibilissimo, 165
Impudence a mode of faith, 284
— the chamois continues to live through, 284
Inconsistency of plants and animals, 153
Infirmary times, 316
Institution, the Royal, why we go to, 68
Insurance Office, plate of, and St. Francis, 191
Intenseness a mode of weakness, 192
Interaction of reason and faith, 108
Inundations and the ruscelli, 219
Inventions, 59, 134
Irrigation, 119
Israelites, the Vaudois the lost ten tribes of, 112
Issime, bells at, 297
Italians, their resemblance to Englishmen, 141, 168
Ivy blossoms, intoxicating effect of, on insects, 104
Jay, a tame, 116
John-the-Baptist-looking man, 122
Joke, the mediæval, 144
Jones, H. F., as my collaborator, 92
— on Lord Beaconsfield and Endymion, 142
— how he learned to draw, 150
— and the dog at Cama, 202
— and the fresco of S. Cristoforo at Mesocco, 209
— on the writing by Lazarus Borollinus, 213
Jutland and Scheria, 41
Kettle, sparks smouldering on, a sign of rain, 239
Kicking the waiter downstairs, 124
Kindliness v. grammar and deportment, 156
Kitchen at Angera, 263
Knowing our own likes and dislikes, difficulty of, 22
Knowledge, a good bed one of the main ends of, 186
Là, 132
Lamb and perpetual spring, 62
Lankester, Prof. Ray, 69
Larks and Wordsworth, 231
Latin and Greek verses and art, 145
Learning via doing, 151
Leg, old woman’s, at Dalpe, 39
— S. Rocco’s, 297
Lesbia and her passer, 231
Liberals throw too large pieces of bread at their hen, 110
Ligornetto, 243
Likes and dislikes hard to discover, 22
Liking and trying, 151
Lilies, 55, 285
Locarno, 268
Locke, his essay on the understanding, 44
Locomotion of plants, 153
London, 19
Loom at Fucine, 166
Lothair sent to a University, 141
Ludgate Hill Station, 20
Lugano, 228
Luke, St., his statue of the Virgin, 178
Lukmanier Pass, 24, 28
Lying, a few remarks on, 69
M.A. degree should be assimilated to the B.A. degree, 186
Mairengo, 28
“Mans is all alike,” 146
Mantegnesque man at the Casina di Banda, 122
Maoris on white men’s fires, 117
Marcus Aurelius a humbug, 156
Marigold blossoms used to colour risotto, 227
Marmots, 285, 288
Martello, Pietro Giuseppe, 189
Master and pupil, true relations between, 150
Matchbox, a frivolous, at Graglia, 194
Matilda and the Bayeux tapestry, 150
Megatherium fossil bores us, 235
“Membrane, my mucous, is before you,” 166
Mendelssohn, staying a long time before things, 24
Mendrisio, 228
Merriment an essential feature of the old feast, 191
Mesocco, 207
Michael Angelo would have failed for “Punch,” 143
Michele, S., 86
Microscope, a mental, wanted, 22
Milton and Fleet Street, 20
Milton and Handel, 191
“Minga far tutto,” 244
Mirrors, frescoes of Death with, at Soazza, 204
Misfortune and disgrace, 58
Mistakes, essence of evolution lies in power to make, 110
— and plasticity, 44
Misunderstanding, essay on human, 44
Monks less sociable than priests, 71
— at S. Michele, 106
Montboissier, Hugo de, 87
Monti and alpi, difference between, 35
Montreal Mountain, 301
Moody, Tom, funeral of, 159
Morbio Superiore, 237
Mozart on Handel, 18
Murray’s Handbook, mistakes on S. Michele, 102
Music at Locarno, 272
— at Varese, 257
Names of birds, 291
— of flowers, 291
— scratched on walls, 213, 235
Narcissuses on Monte Cenere, 228
National Gallery, an art professor at the, 203
Nativity, a stuffed, 251
Negri, Cav. Avvocato, 41
Nemesis, an intellectual sop to, 67
Nests, artificial, 116
New Zealand, song of birds in, 232
Nicolao, S., church of, at Giornico, 73
— chapel of, on Monte Bisbino, 242
— above Sommazzo, 247
Nightingale does not use the diatonic scale, 231
Nose, the man who tapped his, 165
— the man with red, among the saints at Orta, 177
— dispute about a lady’s, 124
Noses, saints with pink, 254
Novice, the, to whom I played Handel, 69
“Obadiahs, The two,” welcoming a bishop with, 272
Oltrona, 258
Onions, seed, and chicory, their weary utterness, 227
Opportunity, lying in wait for, 152
Oratories, Ticinese, 42
Orchids that imitate flies, 70
Oropa, 169
Orta, 167, 177
Osco, 28
Oxford and Cambridge, proposal to make Oropas of them, 186
Paganism of Handel, Milton, and the better part of Catholicism, 191
Pagliotto at Varese, 256
Painting, the giants of, uninteresting, 144
— not more mysterious than conveyancing, 151
Pantheism lurking in rhubarb, 64
Parrot at Mesocco, 207
Passero solitario, 230
Paul, St., letting in the thin edge of the wedge, 66
— and seasonarianism, 68
Peccia, 278
Pella, 167
Periodical, wanted a, by pure amateurs, 156
Photography used in votive pictures, 145
Pick-me-up, a spiritual, 55
Pietro, San, 92
Pinerolo, 111
Piora, 77
Piotta, 26
Piottino, Monte, 26
Pirchiriano, Monte, 88
Plants and animals, causes of their divergence, 153
Plato a humbug, 156
Plover, the, a liar, 69
Pollaiuolo, Antonio, 131
Pollard, Mr., 158
Polypodium vulgare, 242
Porches, timber, 28
“Pork, carbonate of,” 315
Posizionina, una discreta, 165
Postilions, St. Gothard, 24
Potatoes easily bored, 55
Prato, 42
Present, the only comfortable time to live in, 61
Priggishness, 70, 141
Prigs, “she had heard there were such things,” 125
Primadengo, 33
Primrose Hill and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, 89
Procaccini, the brothers, 248
Professions should be hereditary, 155
Progress and equilibrium, each have their advantages, 195
Propositions want tempering with their contraries, 158
Proselytising by eating, 153
Protestantism less logical than Catholicism, 106
— more logical than Catholicism, 192
Protestants do not try to understand Catholicism, 273
Protoplasm, the catholic faith of, 152
Pruning of trees, 129
Pulmonary complaints in subalpine villages, 290
“Punch,” the illustrations to, 143
Punishment, eternal, denied by an Italian, 111
— we would have it so if we could, 196
Purgatory, fresco at Fusio, 140
Quarrel, pleasure of laying aside a, 69
— why the subalpine people quarrel so little, 223
Quietism v. going about in search of prey, 152
Quinto, 26, 46, 77
Quirico, S., chapel of, 261
Raffaelle a humbug, 156
Railway director, the ideal, his education, 155
Rascane, 29
Rationalism, when will it sit lightly on us? 112
Reason and faith, 108
— insufficient alone, 108
— and the chamois’s foot, 283
Recreation and regeneration, 54
— cities of, 186
Red Lion Square said by an Italian to be the centre of London business, 125
Reformation, the, confined to a narrow area, 135
Relics, dentist’s show-case mistaken for, 43
Rembrandt, Sir W. Scott on, 77
Renaissance, the standing aloof from academic principles a sine quâ non for a genuine, 155
Revolutions felt hereafter as mere vibrations, 60
Rhinoceros grunts a fourth, 233
Rhubarb, reflections upon, 62
Richmond Gem cigarette, advertisement of, 273
Risotto, marigolds for colouring, 227
Ritom, Lago, 79
Roads, Alpine, 59
Rocca Melone, 167
Rocco, San, and his leg, 297
Rocks, conventional treatment of, in fresco, 143
Romanes, Mr., 69
Ronco, 77
Rosherville Gardens and Varese, 256
Rossa, Dedomenici da, 137–9
Rossura, 49
Royal Institution, why we go to the, 68
Ruins, all, are frauds, 261
Sacramental wafers, how the novice taught me to make, 69
Sagno, 238
Saints a feeble folk at Varese, 253
Sambucco, Val di, 281, 291
Sanitary conditions of the alpi, 290
— of Fusio, 299
Saturnalia, spiritual, 68
Scheria and Jutland, 41
Schools, our, are covertly radical, 158
Scott, Sir W., on Rembrandt, 77
Seasonarianism and St. Paul, 68
Seasons, the, like species, 63
Semitic characteristic, holiness a, 142
Shakespeare and Handel, 17, 185
Shock, a sine quâ non for consolation and for evolution, 54
— our perception of a, our sole means of classifying, 63
Signorelli, Signor, 264
Skeletons at S. Michele, 97
Sketching clubs, their place in a renaissance of art, 156
Sleep, cost of, 184
Smile, a, in amber, 235
Smuggling on Monte Bisbino, 238
Soazza, 198
Sommazzo, 247
Soot, sparks clinging to, a sign of rain, 239
Soul, hieroglyph of a lost, 147
Soul-fossil, 234
Sparrow, the solitary, 230
Sparrows, tame, at Angera, 260
Species like the seasons, 63
Speculation founded on illusion, 44
Speech not so old as gesture, 165
Spider, the, a liar, but God likes it, 70
Spiders are liers-in-wait, 152
Spinning-wheels at Fucine, 166
Spiral tunnels, 58
Spires near the Lake of Orta, 167
Sporting pictures, 159
Spring, perpetual, and lamb, 62
Spurs at the Tower of London, 215
Stomach affected by thunder, 127
Structures, fusion and confusion of, 44
Stura Valley, 167
Success due mainly to affection, 158
Sunday at Rossura, 51
Supply and demand, 108
Switzerland, German, I have done with, 28
Tabachetti, 189
Tacitus hankered after German institutions, and was a prig, 142
Tanner, extract from ledger of, 235
Tanzio, Il, 189
Tar-water, Bishop Berkeley’s, 64
Technique and grammar, 156
Témoin, Le, a Vaudois newspaper, 111
Tempering, all propositions want, with their contraries, 152
Tengia, 55
Tennyson, misquotation from, 67
Thatch, an indication of German influence, 167
Theism in Bishop Berkeley’s tar-water, 64
Thunder, its effect on the stomach, 127
Ticino carries mud into the Lago Maggiore, 220
“Tira giù,” 42
Titian would not have done for “Punch,” 143
Toeless men, 129
Tom, Lago, 78, 85
Tondino, 164
Torre Pellice, 111
Torrents, deification of, 220
Tower of London, prisoners’ carvings in, 150
— figure of Queen Elizabeth in, 175
— spurs in, 215
Trees, pruning of, 129
Tremorgio, Lago di, 79
Trinity College, Cambridge, and Oropa, 173
Triulci, family of, at Mesocco, 214
Trojan War, duration of, 198
Trout in the Lago Ritom, 79
Truth, deceit a necessary alloy for, 289
Tunnels, spiral, 58
Turin, picture gallery at, 131
Turner, J. M. W., 157, 198
Tyndall, Professor, 69
Undertakers’ blinds and art, 145
Universities and priggishness, 141
— few pass through them unscathed, 151
— an obstacle to the finding of doors, 155
— covertly radical, 158
— proposal to make Oropas of them, 186
Varallo, 176
Varese, 176, 249
Vela, Professor, and his son, 243
Velotti, Nicolao, 188
Verdabbio, 223
Vibrations, revolutions in our social status felt as, 60
Vinci, Leonardo da, on bells, 45
— would have failed for “Punch,” 143
— and Nature’s grandchildren 148
— and anatomy, 216
Viù, 160
Vogogna, 265
Votive pictures, 121, 145, 180, 271
Wafers, sacramental, how the novice taught me to make, 69
Waitee, 41
Waiter, the, at S. Pietro, 124
Walnuts, 118
Waterloo Bridge, view from, 20
Waterspouts at Mesocco, 219
Wednesbury Cocking, 55, 305
West, Benjamin, his picture of Christ healing the sick, 72
Will, Lord Beaconsfield on, 23
Wine-cellars, a day at the, 243
Winter, crossing the St. Gothard Pass in, 24
— in Ticino valley, 78
— at Fusio, 299
— at Montreal, 300
Woodsia hyperborea, 37
Wordsworth and larks, 231
Yawning of a parrot, 207
Yew-trees, clipped, 167
York, Archbishop of, and Scafell, 89
Zèle, surtout point de, 66, 68
Footnotes
[23] Vol. iii. p. 300.
[31] “I know that my Redeemer liveth.”—“Messiah.”
[32] Suites de Pièces, set i., prelude to No. 8.
[33] Dettingen Te Deum.
[41] In the index that Butler prepared in view of a possible second edition of Alps and Sanctuaries occurs the following entry under the heading “Waitee”: “All wrong; ‘waitee’ is ‘ohè, ti.’” He was subsequently compelled to abandon this eminently plausible etymology, for his friend the Avvocato Negri of Casale-Monferrato told him that the mysterious “waitee” is actually a word in the Ticinese dialect, and, if it were written, would appear as “vuaitee.” It means “stop” or “look here,” and is used to attract attention. Butler used to couple this little mistake of his with another that he made in The Authoress of the Odyssey, when he said, “Scheria means Jutland—a piece of land jutting out into the sea.” Jutland, on the contrary, means the land of the Jutes, and has no more to do with jutting than “waitee” has to do with waiting.—R. A. S.
[46] Treatise on Painting, chap. cccxlix.
[55] See Appendix A.
[68] Curiosities of Literature, Lond. 1866, Routledge & Co., p. 272.
[78] Ivanhoe, chap. xxiii., near the beginning.
[83] Handel’s third set of organ concertos, No. 6.
[90] “Storia diplomatica dell’ antica abbazia di S. Michele della Chiusa,” by Gaudenzio Claretta. Turin, 1870. Pp. 8, 9.
[91] “Storia diplomatica dell’ antica abbazia di S. Michele della Chiusa,” by Gaudenzio Claretta. Turin, 1870. P. 14.
[99] Handel; slow movement in the fifth grand concerto.
[105] For documents relating to the sanctuary, see Appendix B, P. 309.
[109] “Well, my dear sir, I am sorry you do not think as I do, but in these days we cannot all of us start with the same principles.”
[111] “It may be for a hundred, or for five hundred years, or for a thousand, or even ten thousand, but it will not be eternal; for God is a strong man—great, generous, and of large heart.”
[124] “If a person has not got an appetite... ”
[125a] The waiter’s nickname no doubt was Cristo, which was softened into Cricco for the reason put forward below.—R. A. S.
[125b] “Cricco is a rustic appellation, and thus religion is not offended.”
[126] “Religion and the magnificent panorama attract numerous and merry visitors.”
[131] “And the milk [in your coffee] does for you instead of soup.”
[147] Butler said of this drawing that it was “the hieroglyph of a lost soul.”—R. A. S.
[178] “Dalle meraviglie finalmente che sono inerenti al simulacro stesso.”—Cenni storico-artistici intorno al santuario di Oropa. (Prof. Maurizio Marocco. Turin, Milan, 1866, p. 329.)
[180] Marocco, p. 331.
[190] “Questa è la festa popolare di Gragha, e pochi anni addietro ancora ricordava in miniature le feste popolari delle sacre campestri del medio evo. Da qualche anno in qua, il costume più severo che s’ introdusse in questi paesi non meno che in tutti gli altri del Piemonte, tolse non poco del carattere originale di questa come di tante altre festività popolesche, nelle quali erompeva spontanea da tutti i cuori la diffusive vicendevolezza degli affetti, e la sincera giovalità dei sentimenti. Ciò non pertanto, malgrado sì fatta decadenza la festa della Madonna di Campra è ancor al presente una di quelle rare adunanze sentimentali, unica forse nel Biellese, alle quali accorre volentieri e ritrova pascolo appropriato il cristiano divoto non meno che il curioso viaggiatore.” (Del Santuario di Graglia notizie istoriche di Giuseppe Muratori. Torino, Stamperia reale, 1848, p. 18.)
[191a] Samson Agonistes.
[191b] “Venus laughing from the skies.”
[191c] Jephthah.
[201] I cannot give this cry in musical notation more nearly than as follows:—
Music score
[204] “Such as ye are, we once were, and such as we are, ye shall be.”
[215] Lugano, 1838.
[231] Butler always regretted that he did not find out about Medea Colleone’s passero solitario in time to introduce it into Alps and Sanctuaries. Medea was the daughter of Bartolomeo Colleone, the famous condottiere, whose statue adorns the Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo at Venice. Like Catullus’s Lesbia, whose immortal passer Butler felt sure was also a passero solitario, she had the misfortune to lose her pet. Its little body can still be seen in the Capella Colleone, up in the old town at Bergamo, lying on a little cushion on the top of a little column, and behind it there stands a little weeping willow tree whose leaves, cut out in green paper, droop over the corpse. In front of the column is the inscription,—“Passer Medeæ Colleonis,” and the whole is covered by a glass shade about eight inches high. Mr. Festing Jones has kindly allowed me to borrow this note from his “Diary of a Tour through North Italy to Sicily.”—R. A. S.
[282] Handel’s third set of organ Concertos, No. 3.
[309] “Storia diplomatica dell’ antica abbazia di S. Michele della Chiusa,” by Gaudenzio Claretta. Turin, Civelli & Co. 1870. p. 116.
[310] “Item, ordinaverunt quod fiant mandata seu ellemosinæ consuetæ quæ sint valloris quatuor prebendarum religiosorum omni die ut moris est.” (Claretta, Storia diplomatica, p. 325.) The mandatum generally refers to “the washing of one another’s feet,” according to the mandate of Christ during the last supper. In the Benedictine order, however, with which we are now concerned, alms, in lieu of the actual washing of feet, are alone intended by the word.
[311] The prior-claustralis, as distinguished from the prior-major, was the working head of a monastery, and was supposed never, or hardly ever, to leave the precincts. He was the vicar-major of the prior-major. The prior-major was vice-abbot when the abbot was absent, but he could not exercise the full functions of an abbot. The abbot, prior-major, and prior-claustralis may be compared loosely to the master, vice-master, and senior tutor of a large college.
[312] “Item, quod dominus abbas teneatur dare quatuor pitancias seu cenas conventui tempore infirmariæ, et quatuor sextaria vini ut consuetum est” (Claretta, Storia diplomatica, p. 326). The “infirmariæ generales” were stated times during which the monks were to let blood—“Stata nimirum tempora quibus sanguis monachis minuebatur, seu vena secabatur.” (Ducange.) There were five “minutiones generales” in each year—namely, in September, Advent, before Lent, after Easter, and after Pentecost. The letting of blood was to last three days; after the third day the patients were to return to matins again, and on the fourth they were to receive absolution. Bleeding was strictly forbidden at any other than these stated times, unless for grave illness. During the time of blood-letting the monks stayed in the infirmary, and were provided with supper by the abbot. During the actual operation the brethren sat all together after orderly fashion in a single room, amid silence and singing of psalms.
[313a] “Item, quod religiosi non audeant in Sancto Ambrosio videlicet in hospiciis concedere ultra duos pastos videlicet officiariis singulis hebdomadis claustrales non de quindecim diebus nisi forte aliquæ personæ de eorum parentelâ transeuntes aut nobiles aut tales de quibus verisimiliter non habetur suspicio eos secum morari faciant, et sic intelligatur de officiariis et de claustralibus” (Claretta, Storia diplomatica, p. 326).
[313b] The two fingers are the barber’s, who lets one finger, or two, or three, intervene between the scissors and the head of the person whose hair he is cutting, according to the length of hair he wishes to remain.
[313c] “Cellelarius teneatur ministrare panem et vinum et pittanciarius pittanciam” (Claretta, Stor. dip., p. 327). Pittancia is believed to be a corruption of “pietantia.” “Pietantiæ modus et ordo sic conscripti... observentur. In primis videlicet, quod pietantiarius qui pro tempore fuerit omni anno singulis festivitatibus infra scriptis duo ova in brodio pipere et croco bene condito omnibus et singulis fratribus... tenebitur ministrare.” (Decretum pro Monasterio Dobirluc., A.D. 1374, apud Ducange.) A “pittance” ordinarily was served to two persons in a single dish, but there need not be a dish necessarily, for a piece of raw cheese or four eggs would be a pittance. The pittancer was the official whose business it was to serve out their pittances to each of the monks. Practically he was the maître d’hôtel of the establishment.
[314] Here the text seems to be corrupt.
[315a] That is to say, he is to serve out rations of bread and wine to everyone.
[315b] “Tres denarios.”
[315c] “Unam carbonatam porci.” I suppose I have translated this correctly; I cannot find that there is any substance known as “carbonate of pork.”
[315d] “Rapiolla” I presume to be a translation of “raviolo,” or “raviuolo,” which, as served at San Pietro at the present day, is a small dumpling containing minced meat and herbs, and either boiled or baked according to preference.
[315e] “Luiroletos.” This word is not to be found in any dictionary: litre (?).
[316a] “Caulos cabutos cum salsa” (choux cabotés?)
[316b] “Sextaria.”
[316c] “Grossos.”
[316d] “Operarius, i.e. Dignitas in Collegiis Canonicorum et Monasteriis, cui operibus publicis vacare incumbit... Latius interdum patebant operarii munera siquidem ad ipsum spectabat librorum et ornamentorum provincia.” (Ducange.) “Let one priest and two laymen be elected in every year, who shall be called operarii of the said Church of St. Lawrence, and shall have the care of the whole fabric of the church itself... but it shall also pertain to them to receive all the moneys belonging to the said church, and to be at the charge of all necessary repairs, whether of the building itself or of the ornaments.” (Statuta Eccl. S. Laur. Rom. apud Ducange.)
[317a] O. The seven antiphons which were sung in Advent were called O’s. (Ducange.)
[317b] “Pro prioratu majori.” I have been unable to understand what is here intended.
[318a] “Carmingier.”
[318b] “Primmentum vel salsam.”
[318c] “Biroleti.” I have not been able to find the words “carmingier,” “primmentum,” and “biroletus” in any dictionary. “Biroletus” is probably the same as “luiroletus” which we have met with above, and the word is misprinted in one or both cases.
[319a] “Item, priori claustrali pro suâ duplâ sex florinos.” “Dupla” has the meaning “mulcta” assigned to it in Ducange among others, none of which seem appropriate here. The translation as above, however, is not satisfactory.
[319b] “Pastamderio.” I have been unable to find this word in any dictionary. The text in this part is evidently full of misprints and corruptions.
[319c] “Ciceratam fractam.” This word is not given in any dictionary. Cicer is a small kind of pea, so cicerata fracta may perhaps mean something like pease pudding.
[319d] Terce. A service of the Roman Church.
[320a] “Invitatorium.” Ce nom est donné à un verset qui se chante ou se récite au commencement de l’office de marines. Il varie selon les fêtes et même les féries. Migne. Encyclopédie Théologique.
[320b] “Epistolam Evangelii.” There are probably several misprints here.
[321a] “Monnas.” Word not to be found.
[321b] “Sextaria.”
[321c] Word missing in the original.
[321d] “Borchiam.” Word not to be found. Borchia in Italian is a kind of ornamental boss.
[322] “Teneatur dare religiosis de carnibus bovinis et montonis decenter.”
[323a] “Foannotos.” Word not to be found.
[323b] “Laganum.”
[324a] “Enredullas hujusmodi” [et res ullas hujusmodi?].
[324b] “In processionibus deferre et de suâ prebendâ nihil perdat vestiarium vere suum salvatur eidem sicut uni monacullo.”
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