by Carlo Ginzburg · MUCHNIK EDITORES, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788485501373
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller is a historical essay by Carlo Ginzburg that explores the beliefs and worldview of a Friulian miller from the 16th century named Menocchio. Through the analysis of the Inquisition's records, Ginzburg reconstructs the cosmological and religious ideas of this character, revealing a rich and complex popular culture in Renaissance Italy. The book examines themes such as popular religiosity, heresy, and the relationship between oral and written culture in the society of the time.
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.
