. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . ted;this is plain because the inscription—which, I think,may be taken as a record made at the time thatfealty was done—is scratched over them. Peter DeSax, if he was selling his property, is not likely tohave had the frescoes painted just before he wasgoing away; I think it most likely, therefore, thatthey were painted in 1480, when the valley of Mesoccopassed from the hands of the De Sax family to thoseof the Triulci. Underneath the inscription about the doing fealtythere is scratched in another hand, and very likelyyears aft
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . ted;this is plain because the inscription—which, I think,may be taken as a record made at the time thatfealty was done—is scratched over them. Peter DeSax, if he was selling his property, is not likely tohave had the frescoes painted just before he wasgoing away; I think it most likely, therefore, thatthey were painted in 1480, when the valley of Mesoccopassed from the hands of the De Sax family to thoseof the Triulci. Underneath the inscription about the doing fealtythere is scratched in another hand, and very likelyyears after the event it commemorates— 1548 fuliberata la Vallata. This date is contradicted (and,I believe, corrected) by another inscription hard by,also in another hand, which says— MESOCCO. 281 1549. La valle di Misocho compro la liberta da casa Triulcia per 2400 scuti. This inscription is signed thus :— Carlo a Marca had written his name /^A^3 along with three others in 1606 on another £•—L M part of the frescoes. Here are the signa- CAR^62^Mtures :—. SIGNATURES. Two of these signatures belong to members ofthe Triulci family, as appears by the trident, whichtranslates the name. The T in each case is doubtlessfor Triulci. Four years earlier still, Carlo a. Marcahad written his name, with that of his wife or fiancee,on the fresco of St. Christopher on the facciata of thechurch, for we found there— 1602 Carlo a Marca. Margherita dei Paglioni. There is one other place where his name appears, orrather a part of it, for the inscription is half hidden bya gallery, erected probably in the last century. The a. Marca family still flourish in Mesocco. Thecurate is an a Marca, so is the postmaster. On thewalls of a house near the convent there is an inscrip- 282 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. tion to the effect that it was given by his fellow-towns-men to a member of the a Marca family, and thebest work on the history of the valley is the work ofGiovanni Antonio a Marca from which I
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