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The Cheese and the Worms

by Carlo Ginzburg

  • FINISHED
  • Finished May 2020
  • First published 1976

history medieval ideas

Reconstructs the beliefs of Menocchio, a sixteenth-century Italian miller tried for heresy.   Ginzburg uses the trial records to show how an ordinary reader formed his own ideas about the universe.