Processi per eresia. A partire da un libro non finito, un racconto, un saggio (1964-1976)

[Machine translation] Let's start from a dozen years of our culture, of our history, between 1964 and 1976, after the end of the boom and up to the lead years, and from three texts by three authors (born in the Ten, Twenties and Thirties of the Twenties of the Twenties) to represent the rebirth of an interest in three different but real characters, taken from archives, who undergo trials for heresy in a past that seems to speak to the present of the years now mentioned and in part, even and unfortunately, to ours: from Diego La Matina (1622-1658) — religious in Palermo from the mid-seventeenth century, in that unfinished but precious Sciascian book that is Death of the Inquisitor (1964, with The Parishes of Regalpetra in 1967) — to Paolo Caliari known as Il Veronese (1528-1588) — painter tried in 1573 in Venice for The Lord's Supper (then Living in Levi's House) and historically taken up in a forgotten story by Neri Pozza, Trial for Heresy (1573) (1970) — and to Domenico Scandella known as Menocchio (1532-1599), a Friulian miller, twice on trial, between 1583 and 1599, in the reconstruction given by Carlo Ginzburg's famous essay, The cheese and worms (1976). This is followed by a note on The Inquisitor, a text from 1975, then Sciascian “chronachette” in 1985 with the title of Don Mariano Crescimanno; precisely in that medium the very different Umberto Eco and The Name of the Rose (1980), harbingers of many other narrative and essayistic tracks.