The Cheese and the Worms(English, Paperback, Ginzburg Carlo)

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The Cheese and the Worms(English, Paperback, Ginzburg Carlo) is written by Ginzburg Carlo and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0801843871 (ISBN 10) and 9780801843877 (ISBN 13).

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."