Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese And The Worms: Book Analysis

Have you ever argued against a force that has been around longer than you, saying they know what is best and what they say goes, sound familiar? Well they are not necessarily wrong just that force does not fully give the evidence that prove themselves to be right. Those forces can be parents, bosses, or any type of influential people in life because it has become a norm for there to be someone that is right and someone that is wrong. In Carlo Ginzburg book, The Cheese and the Worms: the Cosmos of a 16th-Century Miller writes about Domenico Scandella, known as Menocchio. At first Menocchio, and many other people in medieval and in the early modern European world believed sole in the Christian faith, that Gods word is law. No one else can interpret

Being able to read, and orally express himself without having been given “permission” by the church is what caused Menocchio to be placed under these circumstances that made him go to trial. With that a thing to consider is, with knowledge and written proof of information, what does he do with it? Keep it, or spread it out for others to pick for themselves? Menocchio decided to spread what he read and put his twist on it to better the lives of those around him. That is how the story goes then that’s how the reader gets a better look at what Ginzburg tries to do with Menocchios

(p. 41). His thinking is what Ginzburg has able to gather from the proof provided from the case of court, and that it has set an idea of what is from his mind. Being able to paint a picture of what Menocchio believes was the creation of the world and the origins of God have been thought about and no one can truly know if he is right or wrong. Another famous radical thinker two centuries ago is Dante Alighieri from his famous book Divine Comedy part one Inferno. The way Dante was a standout was how he was able to be very vivid with the picture of hell and how the sins committed determined what part of hell you were destined to be. In the introduction Dante finds the “existence” of hell with the famous line “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” (Canto III, Line 9). To standout was again because other people in his time were able to relate with what Dante was writing because it fit there understanding of the churches teaching but allowed his interpretation to influence there