RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Menocchio

1532 - 1599

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Menocchio (Domenico Scandella, 1532–1599) was a miller from Montereale Valcellina, Italy, who was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition for his unorthodox religious views and then was burnt at the stake in 1599. The 16th-century life and medieval religious beliefs of Menocchio are known from the records of the Inquisition, and are the subject of The Cheese and the Worms (1976) by Carlo Ginzburg, as well as of the stageplay Menocchio (2002) by Lillian Garrett-Groag and the film Menocchio (Menocchio the Heretic) (2018) by Alberto Fasulo. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Menocchio is the 1,606th most popular religious figure (up from 1,906th in 2019). (up from 2,394th in 2019)

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Among religious figures, Menocchio ranks 1,606 out of 3,187. Before him are Akile Hatun, Fructuosus, Jean Daniélou, Pietro I Orseolo, Macarius of Alexandria, and John Ball. After him are Peter Bartholomew, Alfred Loisy, Elizabeth Bolden, Elazar Shach, Pope Timothy II of Alexandria, and Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli.

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Among people born in 1532, Menocchio ranks 12. Before him are Francis Walsingham, Luís Fróis, Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. After him are Étienne Jodelle, Alphonsus Rodriguez, Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen, William Allen, and Edzard II, Count of East Frisia. Among people deceased in 1599, Menocchio ranks 10. Before him are Luca Marenzio, Maeda Toshiie, Andrew Báthory, Cornelis de Houtman, Chōsokabe Motochika, and Chand Bibi. After him are Eknath, Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria, Francisco Guerrero, Edzard II, Count of East Frisia, Simone Peterzano, and Antoine Caron.

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