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    Author : Carlo Ginzburg

    Pages : 208 pages

    Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press


    1992-03-01

    Language : English

    ISBN-10 : 0801843871

    ISBN-13 : 9780801843877

    Book Synopsis
    The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen
    through the eyes of one man, a miller brought to trial during the Inquisition. Carlo Ginzburg uses
    the trial records of Domenico Scandella, a miller also known as Menocchio, to show how one
    person responded to the confusing political and religious conditions of his time. For a common
    miller, Menocchio was surprisingly literate. In his trial testimony he made references to more than
    a dozen books, including the Bible, Boccaccio s Decameron, Mandeville s Travels, and a
    "mysterious" book that may have been the Koran. And what he read he recast in terms familiar to
    him, as in his own version of the creation: "All was chaos, that is earth, air, water, and fire were
    mixed together; and of that bulk a mass formedjust as cheese is made out of milkand
    worms appeared in it, and these were the angels."

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