Menocchio could have read about the American discoveries in the scant references in Foresti's Supplementum. He may have had them in mind when he declared with his habitual open-mindedness: "Because I have read that there are many of races of men,Ibelieve that many different peoples have been created in various parts of the world. However, Menocchio probably wasn't acquainted with Doni's urban, sober "new world"-whereas at least an echo must have reached him of the rural carnival-like one of the Capitolo, or of other similar texts. However, there were elements in both that might have pleased him. In the world portrayed by Doni, religion lacked rites and ceremonies, despite the massive presence ofthe temple in the center of the city. It was a religion such as Menocchio had described with longing during his trial, reduced to the simple commandment of"know God, thank him, and love your neighbor." In the world described in the Capitolo, there was an image of happiness linked to abundance, to the enjoyment of material goods, to the absence of work. Granted, when Menocchio was accused of violating Lenten commandments, he defended fasting, even if he did so on dietary rather than religious grounds: "Fasting has been established by the mind so that those humors would not form, and as for me I wish we could eat three or four times a day, but not drink wine so as not to bring on those humors..