Editorial: The work of one of Italy’s greatest scholars focused on ordinary lives oppressed by power and prejudice. That approach resonates today ...

Italian academic and author who challenged traditional approaches with his pursuit of microhistory ...

In fact, we did not really choose; we embraced our plural loyalties. When we gathered in the mornings and evenings to raise ...

The late Carlo Ginzburg is the best-known pioneer of microhistory, looking at social change from below. His approach was deeply affected by his family’s experience of fascism and the rival antifascist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carlo Ginzburg in 1996: his study of an ordinary 16th-century hamlet was translated into 20 languages - Leonardo Cendamo/Getty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Then-Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, left, awards Italian professor Carlo Ginzburg with the "Balzan" prize, in Rome's ...

A collection of essays by the profoundly original, intellectually wide-ranging, Italian-Jewish historian Carlo Ginzburg underlines the influence of Yiddishkeit on his achievement. “Threads and Traces: ...

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Ginzburg's extraordinary reading of archival fragments reshaped historical scholarship across disciplines. He also had interesting connections to India. This article went live on June twenty-second, ...

ROME(AP) — Carlo Ginzburg, an Italian historian whose pioneering work transformed the study of the past by recovering the voices of marginalized people, died Wednesday at 87. The Scuola Normale ...