Feed
Carlo Ginzburg
born 1939 in italy, PhD from the University of Pisa in 1961. Teaching positions at University of Bologna and since 1988 at the University of California, Los Angeles. Field of interest ranges from the Italian Renaissance to Early Modern European History, leader in "microhistorical" methodologies. Numerous publications, amongst them The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 1983, The Enigma of Piero della Francesca, 1985 (revised edition 2000), History, Rhetoric, and Proof. The Menachem Stern Jerusalem Lectures,1999.
Eurozine Articles
On the dark side of history
Carlo Ginzburg talks to Trygve Riiser Gundersen
"I consider literary modernism first of all as an attempt to discover new forms of truthfulness. In that respect it is highly relevant to me as an historian." On the problems of relativism and the duty of the historian. [more]
