Cheese and the Worms The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Name: Cheese and the Worms The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
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ISBN: 9781421409887

ISBN-10: 1421409887

ISBN-13: 9781421409887

Edition: 2013

Authors: Carlo Ginzburg, John. Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi

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The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records to illustrate the confusing political and religious conditions of the 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…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Carlo Ginzburgis retired from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy). He is the author of numerous books that have been translated into English includingThe Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller.



Preface to the 2013 Edition


Translators' Note


Preface to the English Edition


Preface to the Italian Edition


Acknowledgments



Menocchio



The town



First interrogation



"Possessed?"



From Concordia to Portogruaro



"To speak out against his superiors"



An archaic society



"They oppress the poor"



"Lutherans" and Anabaptists



A miller, a painter, a buffoon



"My opinions came out of my head"



The books



Readers of the town



Printed pages and "fantastic opinions"



Blind alley?



The temple of the virgins



The funeral of the Madonna



The father of Christ



Judgment day



Mandeville



Pigmies and cannibals



"God of nature"



The three rings



Written culture and oral culture



Chaos



Dialogue



Mythical cheeses and real cheeses



The monopoly over knowledge



The words of the Fioretto



The function of metaphors



"Master," "steward," and "workers"



An hypothesis



Peasant religion



The soul



"I don't know"



Two spirits, seven souls, four elements



The flight of an idea



Contradictions



Paradise



A new "way of life"



"To kill priests"



A "new world"



End of the interrogations



Letter to the judges



Rhetorical figures



First sentence



Prison



Return to the town



Denunciations



Nocturnal dialogue with the Jew



Second trial



"Fantasies"



"Vanities and dreams"



"Oh great, omnipotent, and holy God…"



"If only I had died when I was fifteen"



Second sentence



Torture



Scolio



Pellegrino Baroni



Two millers



Dominant culture and subordinate culture



Letters from Rome


Notes


Index of Names