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Common terms and phrasesACAU Anabaptists angels appears asked believe benandanti bishop bodily death deprives body Bologna Camillo Renato Caravia Cellina certainly chaos cheese Christian Church Cinquecento classes commandments Concordia condemned confession Decameron declared divine doctrine Donadoni E. P. Thompson earth elements everything evil fact faith Fasseta father Fioretto della Bibbia forgive Francesco Friuli Friulian Gospels habitello heaven hell heresy heretical Holy Office Holy Spirit Ibid ideas inquisitor interrogation Italian judges later Lord Jesus Christ Lunardo Lutheran majesty Mandavilla Mandeville Mandeville's Mandeville's Travels Melchiori Menocchio Menocchio replied mercy miller Montereale notary opinions paradise peasant penance Pighino Polcenigo pope popular culture Porcia Pordenone Portogruaro priests and monks prison prophet question Reformation religion religious Sant'Uffizio Scandella Scolio sconosciuto Scripture siecle sixteenth century Sogno soul speak spiritual death storia things thought Trial Turin Turk Udine unnumbered leaves Venetian Venice vicar village words Ziannuto Popular passagesPage 182 - Menocchio reveal that his shameless "preaching and dogmatizing" aroused the ire of the Inquisition and led to his arrest. Under oath, Menocchio shared his homespun cosmogony: I have said that, in my opinion, all was chaos, that is, earth, air, water, and fire were mixed together; and out of that bulk a mass formed — just as cheese is made out of milk — and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels. References to this bookFrom other books
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