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a table of contents from some book in some store which i forgot

CONTENTS

  1. Menocchio  1
  2. The town  3
  3. First interrogation  5
  4. "Possessed?"  6
  5. From Concordia to Portogruaro  7
  6. To speak out against his superiors"  9
  7. An archaic society  13
  8. "They oppress the poor"  16
  9. "Lutherans" and Anabaptists  18
  10. A miller, a painter, a buffoon  21
  11. "My opinions came out of my head""  27
  12. The  books
  13. Readers of the town  30
  14. Printed pages and "fantastic opinions"  31
  15. Blind alley?  32
  16. The temple of the virgins  34
  17. The funeral of the Madonna  34
  18. The father of Christ  36
  19. Judgment day  37
  20. Mandeville  41
  21. Pigmies and cannibals  44
  22. "God of nature"  47
  23. The three rings  49
  24. Written culture and oral culture  51
  25. Chaos  52
  26. Dialogue  54
  27. Mythical cheeses and real cheeses  56
  28. The monopoly over knowledge  58
  29. The words of the Fioretto  60
  30. The function of metaphors  62
  31. "Master", "steward", and "workers"  62
  32. An hypothesis  65
  33. Peasant religion  68
  34. The soul  69
  35. "I don't know"  70
  36. Two spirits, seven souls, four elements  71
  37. The flight of an idea  72
  38. Contradictions  75
  39. Paradise  76
  40. A new "way of life"  77
  41. "To kill priests"  80
  42. A "new world"  81
  43. End of the interrogations  86
  44. Letter to the judges  87
  45. Rhetorical figures  89
  46. First sentence  91
  47. Prison  93
  48. Return to the town  95
  49. Denunciations  98
  50. Nocturnal dialogue with the Jew  101
  51. Second trial  102
  52. "Fantasies"
  53. "Vanities and dreams"  106
  54. "Oh great, omnipotent, and holy God..."
  55. "If only I had died when I was fifteen"
  56. Second sentence  110
  57. Torture  111
  58. Scolio  112
  59. Pellegrino Baroni  117
  60. Two millers  121
  61. Dominant culture and subordinate  culture
  62. Letters from Rome  127
  63. Index of Names  173