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Born 1939 in Italy, received a PhD from the University of Pisa in 1961. Occupied teaching positions at the University of Bologna and since 1988 at the University of California, Los Angeles. Field of interests range from the Italian Renaissance to Early Modern European History, a leader in microhistory methodologies.

Most famous for his ground-breaking book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller which looked at the life of a peasant in Montereale Valcellina, Italy in the 14th century.

1 Works

• The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller, Baltimore, 1980, BooksEnthsiast.com
• The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Baltimore, 1983
• The Enigma of Piero della Francesca, London, 1985 (revised edition, 2000).
• Clues, Myths and the Historical Method, Baltimore, 1989
• Ecstasies. Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath, New York, 1991
• Occhiacci di legno. Nove riflessioni sulla distanza, Milano, 1998
• The Judge and the Historian. Marginal Notes an a Late-Twentieth-century Miscarriage of Justice, London 1999.
• History, Rhetoric, and Proof. The Menachem Stern Jerusalem Lectures, London and Hanover 1999.
• Das Schwert und die Glühbirne. Eine neue Lektüre von Picassos Guernica, Frankfurt am Main 1999.
• No Island is an Island. Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective, New York 2000.
• Un dialogo, Milano, 2003.
• Articles in Past and Present, Annales, Quaderni storici, Rivista storica italiana, Critical Inquiry, Elementa etc.

• Latitude, Slaves and the Bible: An Experiment in Microhistory (PDF) Online paper by Carlo Ginzberg.

2 External links

• Ginzburg UCLA Homepage
• On the Dark Side Ginzburg interview.
• Review of Cheese and the Worms (PDF)
• Vatican Opens Inquisition Files Article about Cheese and the Worms