[lbo-talk] The Party Travels at Mach Speed: Iron Man, Real and Imagined

[Dennis Claxton]

At 01:24 PM 5/30/2008, Chris Doss wrote:


>because anybody with any
>formal education, except maybe for a few nobles, was a
>member of the clergy.

Not Menocchio.  He was not a cleric or a noble but he could read and 
had access to a lively book exchange network.  An excerpt about this 
from Ginzburg's book is accessible here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=4IUREWq_o3MC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=menocchio+education&source=web&ots=J5qtz1f5ae&sig=eWasi1Kc6YCQ9hJbE4IlYqLMKWQ&hl=en#PPA31,M1