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Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg

b. 1939

Carlo Ginzburg is an Italian historian and a proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for The Cheese and the Worms (1976), which examined the beliefs of Italian heretic Menocchio from Friuli.

2 books in collection

Recommended 2013

Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

History

Recommended 1992

The Cheese and the Worms

History