Carlo Ginzburg

b. 1939 · Italian

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.

Aby Warburg Prize (1992) Lysenko Prize (1993) Viareggio Prize (1998) Balzan Prize (2010) honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University (2012)

Wikipedia Open Library

2 books in collection

Recommended 1989

Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

History

Recommended 1976

The Cheese and the Worms

Religion