Carlo Ginzburg is an Italian historian and proponent of the field of microhistory.
10 Facts About Carlo Ginzburg
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Carlo Ginzburg is best known for Il formaggio e i vermi, which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina.
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Carlo Ginzburg returned to looking at the visionary traditions of early modern Europe for his 1989 book Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath.
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The son of Natalia Ginzburg, a novelist, and Leone Ginzburg, a philologist, historian, and literary critic, Carlo Ginzburg was born in 1939 in Turin, Italy.
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Carlo Ginzburg received a PhD from the University of Pisa in 1961.
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Carlo Ginzburg subsequently held teaching positions at the University of Bologna, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
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In 1979, Ginzburg formally requested that the former Pope John Paul II open the Inquisition Archives.
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Carlo Ginzburg had his doubts about using statistics to reach a judgment about the period.
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Carlo Ginzburg was awarded the 2010 Balzan Prize and was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013.
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Carlo Ginzburg's book was not only about Sofri, but was a general reflection on the scientific methods used by a historian, and their similarity to the work of a judge, who has to correlate testimonies with material evidence in order to deduce what really happened.