Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg
	Ginzburg in 2013
Born	15 April 1939; Turin, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy
Education	University of Pisa (PhD)
Occupations	Historian; microhistorian;
Years active	1966–present
Spouse	Anna Rossi-Doria (divorced)
Children	2, including Lisa
Parents	Leone Ginzburg (father); Natalia Ginzburg (mother);
Relatives	Giuseppe Levi (grandfather); Margherita Sarfatti (second cousin once removed); Silvio Tanzi (granduncle); Drusilla Tanzi (grandaunt); Eugenio Tanzi (great-granduncle);
Awards	Balzan Prize (2010)

Carlo Ginzburg (Italian: [ˈkarlo ˈɡintsburɡ, - ˈɡin(d)zburɡ]; born 15 April 1939) is an Italian historian and a proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for The Cheese and the Worms (1976), which examined the beliefs of Italian heretic Menocchio from Friuli.

In 1966, he published The Night Battles, an examination of the benandanti visionary folk tradition found in 16th- and 17th-century Friuli. He returned to looking at the visionary traditions of early modern Europe for his 1989 book Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath.