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Cheese and the Worms, pages 28-29. Menocchio frequently indicated that this or that book was the source of his opinions. But what had Menocchio read? Unfortunately, we dont have a complete list of [Menocchios] books. At the moment of [Menocchios] arrest the vicar general had his house searched. A few volumes were found, but since [the books] were neither suspected nor prohibited, [the books] werent inventoried. We can reconstruct a partial picture of Menocchios readings only on the basis of the brief references that [Menocchio] made during the interrogations. The following books were mentioned during the [first and second] trials: 1. The Bible in the vernacular, a large part of it in red letters (an unidentified edition); 2. Il Fioretto della Bibbia (the translation of a medieval Catalan chronicle compiled from various sources [including] the Vulgate, [and] the Chronicon of Isidore); 3. Il Lucidario (or Rosario?) della Madonna (probably to be identified with the Rosario della Gloriosa Vergine Maria, by the Dominican Albert da Castello); 4. Il Lucendario (sic, for Legendario) de santi (the translation of the widely diffused Legenda aurea by Jacopo da Voragine, edited by Niccolo Malermi); 5. Historia del giudicio (an anonymous fifteenth-century poem in ottava rima); 6. Il cavalier Zuanne de Mandavilla (the Italian translation of the famous book of travels attributed to a Sir John Mandeville); 7. A book called Zampollo (actually Il sogno dil Caravia, printed in Venice in 1541); 8. Il supplimento delle cronache (the vernacular translation of the chronicle complied by the Augustinian of Bergamo, Jacopo Filippo Foresti); 9. Lunario al modo di Italia calculato compost nella citta di Pesaro dale cc. mo dottore Marino Camilo de Leonardis; 10. The Decameron of Bocaccio in an unexpurgated edition; 11. An unidentified book that a witness supposed was the Quran (an Italian translation had appeared in Venice in 1547).