“It was the encounter between the printed page and the oral culture, of which he was one embodiment, that led Menocchio to formulate -first for himsel, later for himself, later for his fellow villagers, and finally for the judges- the "opinions ... (that) came out of his head.”
― The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
― The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
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