Ginzburg asserts that Menocchio gained his unique worldview from a mixture of oral culture and themes related to contemporary heretical groups with humanistic backgrounds.
The testimony reveals that Menocchio often spoke freely throughout the small Italian hill town of Montereale, voicing his thoughts and opinions about the church and espousing his religious beliefs to the townspeople. The Reformation “gave him the courage to express his feelings” (p. The printed book, according to Ginzburg, created internal conflict within Menocchio and his traditional oral culture and also allowed him the ability to articulate his ideas and beliefs. The accounts of witnesses, neighbors, and contemporaries of Menocchio’s, as well as his own testimony, reveal a puzzling and obscure worldview set against the backdrop of two events that helped shape the modern world: the printing revolution and the Reformation. The two trial transcripts for Menocchio’s heresy, dated 15, tell the story of an ordinary and well-liked man by contemporary standards with extraordinary ideas about religion and the cosmos. The story of Menocchio emerged from the Inquisitorial documents housed in the archives of the Curia Arcivescovile in Udine, the Friulian region of Italy. The book tells the story of an obscure miller names Menocchio.
In this new edition, the relevancy of The Cheese and the Worms is reaffirmed in the scholarship. Set to celebrate its fortieth anniversary next year, the monograph persists as one of the earliest and most influential examples of microhistory.
xxxiii + 180 pp.įirst published in Italian in 1976, Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms has now been published in more than twenty languages. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller.
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