Historian, pioneer of microhistory
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Key moments and achievements from Carlo Ginzburg's life.
Carlo was born
· Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Degree
Ginzburg completed a doctorate in philosophy after studying at the Scuola Normale Superiore, beginning a career devoted to the history of popular culture.
Degree
Ginzburg completed a doctorate in philosophy after studying at the Scuola Normale Superiore, beginning a career devoted to the history of popular culture.
Publication
His first book recovered the world of a rural fertility cult in Friuli drawn into witchcraft trials, establishing his method of reading the records of the powerful to reach the lives of ordinary people.
Publication
His first book recovered the world of a rural fertility cult in Friuli drawn into witchcraft trials, establishing his method of reading the records of the powerful to reach the lives of ordinary people.
Publication
Drawing on the Inquisition file of the miller Menocchio, Ginzburg produced a foundational work of microhistory that opened a window onto sixteenth-century popular belief.
Publication
Drawing on the Inquisition file of the miller Menocchio, Ginzburg produced a foundational work of microhistory that opened a window onto sixteenth-century popular belief.
Professorship
Ginzburg held a professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles, until 2006, part of a teaching career that also took him to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
Professorship
Ginzburg held a professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles, until 2006, part of a teaching career that also took him to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
Publication
He traced the deep mythic origins of the witches' Sabbath across Europe and Asia, extending his inquiry into the shared imaginative roots of popular belief.
Publication
He traced the deep mythic origins of the witches' Sabbath across Europe and Asia, extending his inquiry into the shared imaginative roots of popular belief.
Award
The International Balzan Prize Foundation honored him for European History, praising his recovery of the beliefs of ordinary people in early modern Europe.
Award
The International Balzan Prize Foundation honored him for European History, praising his recovery of the beliefs of ordinary people in early modern Europe.
Carlo Ginzburg passed away
