Carlo Ginzburg
Italian historian and microhistorian / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Born | (1939-04-15) 15 April 1939 (age 85) Turin, Italy |
Alma mater | University of Pisa |
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In 1966, he published The Night Battles, an examination of the benandanti visionary folk tradition found in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Friuli in northeastern Italy. He returned to looking at the visionary traditions of early modern Europe for his 1989 book Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath.