Over and above the advantage of having had even the later Caccia before me, I have seen Cav. Aless. Godio’s “Cronaca di Crea,” which no previous writer had done, inasmuch as this work has been only very lately published. Moreover, when I was at Varallo, it being known that I was writing on the Sacro Monte, every one helped me, and so many gave me such important and interesting information that I found my labour a very light and pleasant one. Especially must I acknowledge my profound obligations to Signor Dionigi Negri, town clerk of Varallo, to Signor Galloni the present director of the Sacro Monte, to Cav. Prof. Antonini and his son, Signori Arienta and Tonetti, and to many other kind friends whom if I were to begin to name I must name half the town of Varallo. With such advantages I am well aware that the work should be greatly better than it is; if, however, it shall prove that I have succeeded in calling the attention of abler writers to Varallo, and if these find the present work of any, however small, assistance to them, I shall hold that I have been justified in publishing it. In the full hope that this may turn out to be the case, I now leave the book to the generous consideration and forbearance of the reader. * * * * * Photographs of Subjects ON THE SACRO MONTE. Unreduced Prints from the Negatives used for the Illustrations given in the foregoing pages, and from about twenty additional Negatives also taken on the Sacro Monte at Varallo, can be had of Mr. GEORGE SALLNOW MARTIN, Optician, Birkbeck Institution, Bream’s Buildings, Chancery Lane, at the following prices:— WHOLE PLATES (about 8 in. x 6 in.)— Silver Prints, unmounted, 1s. 9d. each. Do. in permanent Bromide Process, resembling an Engraving, 2s. 6d. each. Mounting on plain board, 6d., and on India tinted board, 9d. extra. HALF PLATES (about 6 in. × 4 in.)— Silver Prints, unmounted, 1s. each. Do. in permanent Bromide Process, resembling an Engraving, 1s. 6d. Mounting on plain board, 4d., and on India tinted board, 6d. extra. Some few of the Negatives are unsuited for Bromide Process, and these will only be printed in Silver. The original photographs used for this book that are from Whole Plate negatives are marked with an asterisk in the List of Illustrations at the beginning of the volume. Those not so marked are Half Plates. * * * * * FOOTNOTES. {40} “Uomini e Fatti,” &c., p. 65, &c. {52} “Uomini e fatti,” p. 83. {57} Fassola, p. 112. {62} These chapels are grouped together in the 1586 edition as “la natività di N.S. nel Presepio,” but they are separated, as they doubtless should have been earlier, in the edition of 1590 [1591]. {65} English translation of the “Life of St. Charles Borromeo,” with preface by Cardinal Manning. Burns & Oates, London and New York, 1884, vol. ii. p. 47. {66} “Storia a Guida,” ed. 1857, Varallo, p. 68.