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The Cheese and The Worms: The cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller. by Carlo Ginzburg

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Burning Thoughts

The freedom of having the right to think and have thoughts for yourself is that one thing we will always fight for or perhaps ask not to be taken away of us because living a life that stops us from having our thoughts is a life of hardship and silence . Silencing our thoughts from speaking what we know or what we think about our life or our environment is same us being blind for all the things around us . In the story of

Carlo Ginzburg , he opened a story of a man who was speaking about what he thinks and the curiosity of his mind soon gave him his end

Ginzburg told about the life of a miller named Domenico Scandella or whom people call as Menocchio . It was cold in the mountainous region of Friuli and the people of Porde were also cold . A bonfire was lit around them and soon an old man whom they know as Menocchio , a sixty-seven year old ill-educated man who was not unknown to the residents of Porde since used to be a mayor in Montereale , an administrator of the parish church of the same place and now a miller by trade . Soon he was placed in the stand of wood stack which already have a lit and right there and then he was burned in front of other people (Ginzburg , 1976

A story of so much creativity , this book was first published in 1976 and the...

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