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The cheese and the worms : the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller
Formaggio e i vermi. English
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- Creator
- Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by John and Anne Tedeschi
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980
- Physical Details
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- xxvii, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801823366, 9780801823367, 9780801843877, 0801843871
- OCLC
- ocm06040989, ocm06040989
- Translation of Il formaggio e i vermi.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Translation of Il formaggio e i vermi.
- Menocchio -- The town -- First interrogation -- "Possessed?" -- From Concordia to Portogruaro -- "To speak out against his superiors" -- An archaic society -- "They oppress the poor" -- "Lutherans" and Anabaptists -- A miller, a painter, a buffoon -- "My opinions came out of my head" -- The books -- Readers of the town -- Printed Pages and "Fantastic opinions" -- Blind Alley? -- The temple of the virgins -- The funeral of the madonna -- The father of Christ -- Judgement day -- Mandeville -- Pigmies and cannibals -- "God of nature" -- The three rings -- Written Culture and oral culture -- Chaos -- Dialogue -- Mythical Cheeses and real cheeses -- The monopoly over knowledge -- The words of the Fioretto -- The function of metaphors -- "Master," "steward," and "workers" -- An hypothesis -- Peasant Religion -- The soul -- "I don't know" -- Two spirits, seven souls, four elements -- The flight of an idea -- Contradictions -- Paradise -- A new "way of life" -- "To kill priests" -- A "new world" -- End of the interrogations -- Letter to the judges -- Rhetorical figures -- First sentence -- Prison -- Return to the town -- Denunciations -- Nocturnal dialogue with the Jew -- Second trial -- "Fantasies" -- "Vanities and dreams" -- "Oh great, omnipotent, and holy God ..." -- "If only I had died when I was fifteen" -- Second sentence -- Torture -- Scolio -- Pellegrino Baroni -- Two millers -- Dominant culture and subordinate cluture -- Letters from Rome
Subjects
- Scandella, Domenico, 1532-1599.
- Udine (Italy : Province) -- Religious life and customs.
- Udine (Italy : Province) -- Civilization.
- Peasants -- Italy -- Udine (Province) -- History -- 16th century.
- Christian heretics -- Italy -- Udine (Province).
- Christian heresies -- History -- Modern period, 1500-
- Udine (Italy : Province) -- Church history.