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Carlo Ginzburg (Italian: [ˈkarlo ˈɡintsburɡ]; born 15 April 1939) is an Italian historian and a proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for Il formaggio e i vermi (1976, English title: The Cheese and the Worms ), which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio , from Montereale Valcellina .
Nov 22, 2021 · Carlo Ginzburg is a professor emeritus of Italian Renaissance and early modern European history at UCLA. He is the author of several books on topics such as witchcraft, Piero della Francesca, and Picasso's Guernica.
The Cheese and the Worms (Italian: Il formaggio e i vermi) is a scholarly work by the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, published in 1976. The book is a notable example of the history of mentalities , microhistory , and cultural history .
- Carlo Ginzburg
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Carlo Ginzburg (1939) has taught at the University of Bologna, at UCLA, at the Scuola Normale of Pisa. His books, translated into more than twenty languages, include The Night Battles; The Cheese and the Worms; Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method; The Enigma of Piero della Francesca; History, Rhetoric, and Proof; The Judge and the Historian;
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Apr 29, 2022 · In this Philological Conversation, Carlo Ginzburg reflects on the place of philology in his work and explores the connections between philology, microhistory, and casuistry.
Carlo Ginzburg is a renowned historian of early-modern Europe, who has recovered and illuminated the beliefs of ordinary people and the relations between elite and popular cultures. He has also written on historical method, iconography, and literature, and has influenced many scholars with his original and imaginative works.
