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Carlo Ginzburg

1939 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlo Ginzburg has received more than 341,412 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Carlo Ginzburg is the 80th most popular historian (down from 76th in 2019), the 1,143rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,119th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Historian.

Carlo Ginzburg is most famous for his book, "The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller," which explores the life of a miller in sixteenth-century Friuli, Italy.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Carlo Ginzburg ranks 80 out of 561. Before him are Movses Khorenatsi, Justin, Eutropius, Ephorus, Lev Gumilyov, and Nicolaus of Damascus. After him are Donna Haraway, Flavio Biondo, Al-Maqrizi, Georges Duby, Julius Wellhausen, and Erich Auerbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Carlo Ginzburg ranks 56. Before him are Claude François, Joel Schumacher, Pak Pong-ju, Richard Serra, João Bernardo Vieira, and Amancio Amaro. After him are Ruud Lubbers, Beate Klarsfeld, Carolina Herrera, Princess Irene of the Netherlands, Emil Constantinescu, and Ricardo Bofill.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Ginzburg ranks 1,143 out of 5,161. Before him are Lorenzo Monaco (1370), Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417), William III of Sicily (1185), Francesco Albani (1578), Vladimir Bartol (1903), and Ivanoe Bonomi (1873). After him are Gillo Pontecorvo (1919), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Constantina (325), Francesco Geminiani (1687), Constantius Gallus (325), and Erasmo of Narni (1370).

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Among HISTORIANS In Italy

Among historians born in Italy, Carlo Ginzburg ranks 9. Before him are Diodorus Siculus (-90), Euhemerus (-330), Leonardo Bruni (1370), Marcus Velleius Paterculus (-19), Francesco Guicciardini (1483), and Poggio Bracciolini (1380). After him are Flavio Biondo (1388), Timaeus (-350), Tyrannius Rufinus (345), Andrea Alciato (1492), Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (1457), and Martino Martini (1614).

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