Menocchio

Menocchio (Domenico Scandella, 1532–1599) was a miller from Montereale Valcellina, Italy, who was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition for his unorthodox religious views and then was burnt at the stake in 1599. The 16th-century life and medieval religious beliefs of Menocchio are known from the records of the Inquisition, and are the subject of The Cheese and the Worms (1976) by Carlo Ginzburg,[1][2][3][4] as well as of the stageplay Menocchio (2002) by Lillian Garrett-Groag[5] and the film Menocchio (Menocchio the Heretic) (2018) by Alberto Fasulo.

  1. ^ Levine, D., & Vahed, Z. (2001). Ginzburg's Menocchio: Refutations and Conjectures. Histoire sociale/Social History, 34(68).
  2. ^ Scandella, D., & Tedeschi, A. (1995). The Trials of Menocchio: The Complete Transcripts (1583–1599). A. del Col (Ed.). Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton.
  3. ^ Monter, William. The Canonization of Domenico Scandella alias Menocchio Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance T. 63, No. 3 (2001), pp. 621–623.
  4. ^ Zambelli, P. (1979). 'UNO, DUE, TRE, MILLE MENOCCHIO'-SPONTANEOUS GENERATION (OR THE PERSONAL COSMOGONY OF A 16TH-CENTURY MILLER). Archivio storico italiano, 137(499), 51-90.
  5. ^ "Menocchio". Berkeley Repertory Theatre. 2002. Retrieved 19 March 2018.[permanent dead link]