The Cheese and the Worms Lib/E: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Compact Disc)

The Cheese and the Worms Lib/E: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller By Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi (Contribution by), John Tedeschi (Translator) Cover Image
By Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi (Contribution by), John Tedeschi (Translator)
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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 religious and social conflicts of the society Menocchio lived in. 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. In a thoughtful new preface, Ginzburg offers his own corollary to Menocchio's story as he considers the discrepancy between the intentions of the writer and what gets written. The Italian miller's story and Ginzburg's work continue to resonate with modern readers because they focus on how oral and written culture are inextricably linked.


Product Details
ISBN: 9798200368396
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Publication Date: February 12th, 2019
Language: English