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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 .
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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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.
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. 2010 Balzan Prize for European History (1400-1700) For the exceptional combination of imagination, scholarly precision and literary skill with which he has recovered and illuminated the beliefs of ordinary people in early modern Europe.
Carlo Ginzburg is an Italian noted historian and proponent of the field of microhistory. He received a PhD from the University of Pisa in 1961. He has subsequently held teaching positions at the University of Bologna and at the University of California, Los Angeles (1988–2006).
Mar 11, 2000 · Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg's new book, The Judge and the Historian, involves him in contemporary case stemming from 1969 terrorist bombing in Milan, in which 16 people were killed;...
