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Carlo Ginzburg

1939 - Today

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carlo Ginzburg is the 83rd most popular historian (down from 80th in 2019), the 1,186th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,143rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Historian.

Carlo Ginzburg is most famous for his book, "The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller," which explores the life of a miller in sixteenth-century Friuli, Italy.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Carlo Ginzburg ranks 83 out of 561. Before him are Eutropius, Gaston Maspero, Kenneth Clark, Nicolaus of Damascus, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., and George Ostrogorsky. After him are Julius Wellhausen, Timaeus, Donna Haraway, Erich Auerbach, Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, and Georges Duby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Carlo Ginzburg ranks 56. Before him are Volker Schlöndorff, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Stanisław Dziwisz, Susumu Tonegawa, Leland H. Hartwell, and Alfredo Palacio. After him are Beate Klarsfeld, Henry Mintzberg, Ion Țiriac, Princess Irene of the Netherlands, Phil Spector, and Claude François.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Ginzburg ranks 1,186 out of 5,161. Before him are Caesar Baronius (1538), William III of Sicily (1185), Salvatore Schillaci (1964), Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1498), Francesco Morosini (1619), and Giuliano Amato (1938). After him are Carlo Carrà (1881), Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1500), Agostino Casaroli (1914), Giambattista Marino (1569), Dosso Dossi (1480), and Raf Vallone (1916).

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Among HISTORIANS In Italy

Among historians born in Italy, Carlo Ginzburg ranks 9. Before him are Suetonius (70), Leonardo Bruni (1370), Marcus Velleius Paterculus (-19), Poggio Bracciolini (1380), Francesco Guicciardini (1483), and Euhemerus (-330). After him are Timaeus (-350), Flavio Biondo (1388), Tyrannius Rufinus (345), Andrea Alciato (1492), Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (1457), and Martino Martini (1614).

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