Menocchio: The Heretic

: He was vocal about the Church’s wealth and its use of Latin in courts, which he felt was a tool to keep the poor in the dark. The Trials

Despite his humble station, Menocchio was literate and read widely—from the Bible to Boccaccio’s Decameron and Mandeville’s Travels . He developed a unique, almost sci-fi theory about creation that he shared openly with his neighbors: Menocchio the Heretic

: Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms remains the definitive scholarly account of his life and trial. Menocchio: The Heretic Who Declared God a Worm : He was vocal about the Church’s wealth