by Carlo Ginzburg · El Aleph Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476692813
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«El queso y los gusanos» is the historical essay by Carlo Ginzburg, published by El Aleph Editores in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Menocchio, a sixteenth-century Friulian miller tried by the Inquisition, imagined the cosmos as a cheese from which worms are born, turned into angels. Through the Holy Office's interrogations, Carlo Ginzburg reconstructs that vision and shows how popular beliefs mix with written culture and Renaissance religious heresy.
Part of the Atajos collection (no. 12). A representative work of Italian microhistory, translated from Italian; the original title is «Il formaggio e i vermi».
For readers interested in social, religious, or cultural history, as well as the Inquisition and microhistory.
Carlo Ginzburg is an Italian historian and a proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for The Cheese and the Worms (1976), which examined the beliefs of Italian heretic Menocchio from Friuli.
