Knowledge and assembly: a study of Cheese and worms, by Carlo Ginzburg
knowledge; assembly; microhistory; O queijo e os vermes; Carlo Ginzburg
This paper aims at investigating the relation that exists between the knowledge and the assembly in the book O queijo e os vermes, written by the italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, originally published in 1976. This book, reconstitutes and tells Domenico Scandella’s history, also known as Menocchio, a farmer that has had his own ideas repressed by the inquisitorial power in the 16th century. The knowledge and the readings that Menocchio used to construct his own cosmogony are investigated based on Michel Foucault's thought on discourse, knowledge and power, and also regarding the concept of assembly (montage) from Georges Didi-Huberman. The investigations of Professor Ivan Domingues about transdisciplinarity collaborated in the sense of considering that Menocchio’s cosmogony puts into movement the field of knowledge, reinventing new possibilities.