Carlo Ginzburg
Autor(a) de The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
About the Author
Carlo Ginzburg is Professor Emeritus of History at UCLA and the author of, among other things, The Night Battles and The Cheese and the Worms (the first of his hooks to appear in English, winning instant acclaim).
Obras por Carlo Ginzburg
The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1966) 717 exemplares
The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice (1991) 111 exemplares
A micro-história e outros ensaios 5 exemplares
L'Italia: regioni e paesaggi — Autor — 2 exemplares
Religioni delle classi popolari 2 exemplares
High and low 2 exemplares
Cinco reflexiones sobre Marc Bloch 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Scelte di vita. Conversazionei con Giovanni De Luna, Carlo Ginzburg, Pietro Marcenaro, Claudio Pavone, Vittorio Rieser (2010) — Autor — 2 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Ginzburg, Carlo
- Nome legal
- Ginzburg, Carlo
- Data de nascimento
- 1939-04-15
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Italy
- Local de nascimento
- Turin, Italy
- Locais de residência
- Turin, Italy
Pisa, Italy
Los Angeles, California, USA
Bologna, Emilia Romagna, Italy - Educação
- University of Pisa (dottore in Lettere)
Scuola Normal Superiore, Pisa - Ocupações
- historian
art historian
professor - Relações
- Ginzburg, Natalia (mother)
Ginzburg, Leone (father)
Ciammitti, Luisa (wife) - Organizações
- University of California, Los Angeles
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Bologna - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Balzan Prize (2010)
Aby Warburg Prize (1992)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Carlo Ginzburg is an Italian historian who comes from a distinguished Italian literary and political family. His father was Leone Ginzburg (1909-1944) and his mother was Natalia Levi Ginzburg (1916-1991). He attended one of Italy's most prestigious secondary schools before receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Pisa. He became known as an innovative historian with the publication of his book Night Battles. After teaching in Italian universities, he came to the USA in 1973 to serve as a visiting professor. He was appointed Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies at UCLA in 1988. He was instrumental persuading the Vatican to open its archives on the Inquisition to scholars and researchers.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 37
- Also by
- 8
- Membros
- 4,149
- Popularidade
- #6,067
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 42
- ISBN
- 222
- Línguas
- 22
- Marcado como favorito
- 11
Despite this, the various customs which he documents are of interest and I was particularly interested in the opening chapter about the attitude to lepers in the late middle ages, and how they were treated as conspirators against Christendom. I was aware of the persecution of Jews and people viewed as having heretical beliefs, but had not known that lepers also were persecuted, tortured and executed in the same way as those groups and later, those accused of witchcraft.
The author does in places have a tendency to resort to academic language which went over my head rather, but the parts written straightforwardly were fine, and on the whole I rate this at 3 stars.… (mais)