Sacra di San Michele - silk High places attract saints. Thus it was that around the fateful year 1000 a pious hermit, guided by a dazzling apparition of Saint Michael, built what has become the very symbol of feudal monasticism at the mouth of the Val di Susa; an abbey-fortress, with all the forbidding menace of medieval Piedmont, perched provocatively between heaven and earth on a crag in the foothills of the Alps, criss-crossed by steep theatrical flights of stairs.

Title: Sacra di San Michele - silk Pages: 72 Tables: 48 Author: Gianni Guadalupi and contemporary text by Massimo d’Azeglio Edition: Italian, French, English Year: 1994 Edited by: Gianni Guadalupi Dimensions: (cm) 30x30 Rilegato: Silk Photos by: Pino Dell’Aquila Collazione: 4 pnn, XII pn, 54 pn, 2 pnn Iconographia: Photographs of St. Michael’s Abbey and old prints from d’Azeglio Paper: Gardamatt, white Printer: Grafiche Mazzucchelli Availability: Il volume è disponibile nella versione Imitlin, con sovraccoperta a colori