Book · 1976 · Nonfiction
The Cheese and the Worms
Johns Hopkins University Press · 224 pages
★ 6.8 editorial score
A sixteenth-century Italian miller told the Inquisition that the world formed as cheese forms from milk, and the angels were worms in it. From that file Ginzburg reconstructs an entire peasant mind.
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1976Depicts 16th century
