The Cheese and the Worms : The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller Condition:Good NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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complemented by archival researches in the UK

and won the Booker Prize in 1997

little scratch tells the story of a day in the life of an unnamed woman

clear and modern translations

The Cheese and the Worms : The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller Condition:Good NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe 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. 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. For a common miller, Menocchio was surprisingly literate. In his trial testimony he made