Start with the world
Read the Friuli setting and the general overview. They clarify what the archive means by Benandanti and which functions survive in the written record.
Read the case
Move to the 1575 Cividale inquiry and the profiles of Paolo Gasparutto and Battista Moduco. Follow the modern translated transcript without mistaking the document for direct verification of every experience described within it.
Read the disagreement
Compare Ginzburg’s reconstruction with Nardon’s later-period reassessment. Then inspect the debate page and claim explorer. Only after that should a reader explore contemporary spiritual reinterpretations and fictional uses of the name.
Make the archive better
Every correction should name the affected sentence, supply an edition or record, and distinguish changed interpretation from corrected fact.
Source and revision record
Original editorial analysis and definitions. For background reference, consult the source catalog.