Menocchio The Heretic «2027»

: Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms remains the definitive scholarly account of his life and trial. Menocchio: The Heretic Who Declared God a Worm

Despite his humble station, Menocchio was literate and read widely—from the Bible to Boccaccio’s Decameron and Mandeville’s Travels . He developed a unique, almost sci-fi theory about creation that he shared openly with his neighbors: Menocchio the Heretic

The story of , born Domenico Scandella (1532–1599), is one of the most famous "microhistories" from the Italian Reformation. A self-educated miller from the small village of Montereale Valcellina, Menocchio was famously tried twice by the Roman Inquisition for his strikingly original and "heretical" views on the cosmos. : Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms