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Meet Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg has taught at the University of Bologna; the University of California, Los Angeles; and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. The recipient of the 2010 International Balzan Prize, he is the author of The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller and Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method.

Published Works

Cover of "The Night Battles" by Carlo Ginzburg, featuring tan and orange tones over a woodcut of angels and demons in combat.

The Night Battles

Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Carlo Ginzburg
translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi, and Stephen Twilley

updated edition

Publication Date: September 8, 2026

Cover of "The Cheese and the Worms" by Carlo Ginzburg, featuring layered yellow and brown tones over an etching of a robed man reading a book in front of a medieval town.

The Cheese and the Worms

The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Carlo Ginzburg
translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi, and Stephen Twilley

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

Publication Date

2026

Cover image of The Night Battles

The Night Battles

Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Carlo Ginzburg
with a new preface
translated by John and Anne C. Tedeschi

Publication Date

2013

Cover image of Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

Carlo Ginzburg
with a new preface
translated by John and Anne C. Tedeschi

Publication Date

2013