The Cheese And the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller - Softcover

Carlo Ginzburg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140060464 ISBN 13: 9780140060461

Publisher: Penguin, 1982

Synopsis

This is a reissue of Carlo Ginzburg's book on the world-view of a 16th-century Italian miller, burnt at the stake as a heretic in 1599.

About this title

Review:

"A wonderful book... Ginzburg is a historian with an insatiable curiosity, who pursues even the faintest of clues with all the zest of a born detective until every fragment of evidence can be fitted into place. The work of reconstruction is brilliant, the writing superbly readable, and by the end of the book the reader who has followed Dr. Ginzburg in his wanderings through the labyrinthine mind of the miller of the Friuli will take leave of this strange and quirky old man with genuine regret." -- J. H. Elliott, New York Review of Books

About the Author:

Carlo Ginzburg is a professor at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy, and the recipient of the prestigious International Balzan Prize. He is author of The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century and Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method, also published by Johns Hopkins.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0140060464
• ISBN 13: 9780140060461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208