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The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the 16th century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records to illustrate the religious and social conflicts of the society in which Menocchio lived.

Nevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma in the subtitle: Machiavelli, Pascal. Is this comma a conjunction or a disjunction? In fact, both. Ginzburg approaches Machiavelli's work from the perspective of casuistry, or case-based ethical reasoning.

Che Europa che fa: Non diamo un futuro al fascismo, di Carlo Ginzburg; Cosa cambierà dopo le Europee, di Massimo Giannini; Matteo Renzi: "Il Pd guadagnerà voti, tanti tornano a casa. Salvini? Fa fake news con i 49 milioni", di Stefano Cappellini; Un'alleanza da Tsipras a Macron per un'Europa anti sovranista, di Goffredo De Marchis e Anais Ginori; I post, la squadra e i soldi: così la Bestia orienta il voto, di Matteo Pucciarelli.