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Carlo Ginsburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory .1Occupied 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.2Most 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 .3
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Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory .He is most famous for his ground-breaking book, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller, which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio , from Montereale Valcellina .
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Carlo Ginzburg ( ; born April 15, 1939 ) is a noted Italian historian and 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 16th and 17th 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 .
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Carlo Ginzburg ( ; born April 15, 1939 in Turin , Italy ) is a noted Italian historian and 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 .
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Italian historian and microhistorian Carlo Ginzburg ( ; born April 15, 1939) is an Italian historian and 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 .
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Italian historian (born 1939) 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 .
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noted historian and pioneer of microhistory
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italian historian and a proponent of the field of microhistory
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