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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Millerby: Carlo Ginzburg March 01, 1992 |
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Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg traces the story of one Menocchio, a peasant from northern Italy who was put on trial (and eventually burned at the stake) for heresy by the Italian inquisition in the 16th century. He puts forwards parts of the transcription of the trial, and we realize that Menocchio has some quite heterodox (and not totally consistent) views on theology and cosmology, suggesting a number of eclectic sources for his ideas. For example, he viewed the Earth as a sort of giant cheese and the angels as worms coming out of the cheese (hence the book's title). How an Italian peasant, without presumably much access to books, would get such views, Ginzburg asks. He traces the bookshelves of Menocchio, but he is unable to come up with ... Read More:
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The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuriesby: Carlo Ginzburg March 01, 1992 |
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this work is extremely mind provoking...bringing to question not only who the benandanti were, but also what their purpose was in a society which bore a quite rigid definition of witches. ginzburg does a marvelous job of uniting various archive sources and creating, if you will, an artistic reality to witches in the early europe of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Myths, Emblems, Clues (Radius Books)by: Carlo Ginzburg January 31, 1990 |
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this work is extremely mind provoking...bringing to question not only who the benandanti were, but also what their purpose was in a society which bore a quite rigid definition of witches. ginzburg does a marvelous job of uniting various archive sources and creating, if you will, an artistic reality to witches in the early europe of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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No Island is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective (Italian Academy Lectures)by: C Ginzburg November 24, 2000 |
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this work is extremely mind provoking...bringing to question not only who the benandanti were, but also what their purpose was in a society which bore a quite rigid definition of witches. ginzburg does a marvelous job of uniting various archive sources and creating, if you will, an artistic reality to witches in the early europe of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Nine Papers in Analysis: 103 (American Mathematical Society Translations: Series 2)by: M.S. Brodskii, Ju. P. Ginzburg, I.C. Gohberg, I.S. Kac, M.G. Krein December 15, 1974 |
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this work is extremely mind provoking...bringing to question not only who the benandanti were, but also what their purpose was in a society which bore a quite rigid definition of witches. ginzburg does a marvelous job of uniting various archive sources and creating, if you will, an artistic reality to witches in the early europe of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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