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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." Running time: 7.95 hours
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Le fromage et les vers, Monique Aymard, Carlo Ginzburg
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2019
- Rilegatura
- (In brossura)
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- Titolo
- Le fromage et les vers
- Sottotitolo
- L'univers d'un meunier du XVIe siècle
- Lingua
- Francese
- Autori
- Monique Aymard, Carlo Ginzburg
- Editore
- Flammarion
- Pubblicato
- 2019
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 302
- ISBN10
- 2081451786
- ISBN13
- 9782081451780
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Biografie, Religione, Italia, Medioevo, Storia d'Europa, Cinquecento, Rinascimento, Microstoria
- Descrizione
- 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." Running time: 7.95 hours