The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg

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The writer analyzes the book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg and argues that Ginzburg was able to create the mindset of an Italian miller of the Sixteenth Century by using records from the Inquisition and other contemporary sources The writer argues that this book created a new genre, that of the micro-history, which deals with historical themes by examining individual episodes in a person's life. The paper is seven pages long and there are no additional sources listed.