Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg was an Italian historian and a proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for The Cheese and the Worms, which examined the beliefs of... Wikipedia

• Born:  April 15, 1939, Turin, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy
• Age at death:  87 years
• Died:  June 17, 2026, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
• Education:  University of Pisa (PhD)
• Occupation:  Historian, microhistorian
• Years active:  1966–2026
• Children:  2, including Lisa
• Parents:  Leone Ginzburg (father), Natalia Levi (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)
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo