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. 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. Ginzburg drives a wedge between two traditions in the historiog-raphy of popular culture: on the one hand, Mandrous thesis that popular culture must be understood as something imposed from. God was 'nothing but earth, water, and air' (I ). His ontology was a radical materialist pantheism. 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.įor a common miller, Menocchio was surprisingly literate. into cheese laced with worms, which were the angels. 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. Original title: Il formaggio e i vermi: Il cosmo di un mugnaio del '500
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