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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller Book
This English translation of Carlo Ginzburg's popular history 'Il formaggio e i Vermi,' is a lively and ingenious attempt to reconstruct the intellectual world of a 16th century miller who lived out his days in a remote Friulian village. Menocchio was a simply family man..a miller by trade, the father of 11 children, briefly the mayor of his village. But he was also a voracious reader, a man who, possessed of an extraordinary curiosity, constructed a radical cosmology and dared to present it to the world. In 1599 he was burned at the stake as a heretic. This book has been rightly hailed as one of the most significant recent contributions to a burgeoning field of study, the popular culture of early-modern Europe. Ginzburg combines Inquisition transcripts (which, like modern screenplays, … read more...
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