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  The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller (Paperback) By (author) Carlo Ginzburg, Translated by John Tedeschi, Translated by Anne C. Tedeschi

  

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  Short Description for The Cheese and the WormsA survey of popular culture in 16th century Italy.
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  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 01 March 1992
  • Format: Paperback 208 pages
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  • Categories: European History | Medieval History | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Social & Cultural History | Blasphemy, Heresy, Apostasy
  • ISBN 13: 9780801843877 ISBN 10: 0801843871
  • Sales rank: 62,579

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• 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 formed-just as cheese is made out of milk-and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels."