1939 - Today
Carlo Ginzburg (Italian: [ˈkarlo ˈɡintsburɡ]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlo Ginzburg has received more than 258,554 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Carlo Ginzburg is the 73rd most popular historian (down from 72nd in 2019), the 1,122nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,115th 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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Among historians, Carlo Ginzburg ranks 73 out of 339. Before him are Al-Baladhuri, Nicolaus of Damascus, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Al-Dhahabi, Movses Khorenatsi, and Erich Auerbach. After him are Eutropius, Donna Haraway, Julius Wellhausen, Ephorus, Timaeus, and Yuval Noah Harari.
806 - 892
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 67
64 BC - 4
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 68
1815 - 1887
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 69
1274 - 1348
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 70
410 - 490
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 71
1892 - 1957
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 72
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 73
320 - 400
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 74
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 75
1844 - 1918
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 76
400 BC - 330 BC
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 77
350 BC - 260 BC
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 78
1976 - Present
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 79
Among people born in 1939, Carlo Ginzburg ranks 57. Before him are Joel Schumacher, Ratko Janev, Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Volker Schlöndorff, Harry Kroto, and Silvana Armenulić. After him are João Bernardo Vieira, Barry Seal, Fikret Abdić, Carolina Herrera, Beate Klarsfeld, and Princess Irene of the Netherlands.
1939 - 2020
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 51
1939 - 2019
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 52
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.90
Rank: 53
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 54
1939 - 2016
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 55
1939 - 1976
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 56
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 57
1939 - 2009
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 58
1939 - Present
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 59
1939 - Present
HPI: 60.65
Rank: 60
1939 - Present
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 61
1939 - Present
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 62
1939 - Present
HPI: 60.00
Rank: 63
Among people born in Italy, Carlo Ginzburg ranks 1,122 out of 4,668. Before him are Bettino Craxi (1934), William III of Sicily (1185), Federico Barocci (1535), Princess Mafalda of Savoy (1902), Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755), and Tarpeia (-800). After him are Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy (1636), Dino Risi (1916), Milonia Caesonia (7), Giampiero Boniperti (1928), Marcomer (400), and Archduke John of Austria (1782).
1934 - 2000
HPI: 61.14
Rank: 1,116
1185 - 1198
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 1,117
1535 - 1612
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 1,118
1902 - 1944
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 1,119
1755 - 1824
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 1,120
800 BC - 800 BC
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 1,121
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 1,122
1636 - 1676
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 1,123
1916 - 2008
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 1,124
7 - 41
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 1,125
1928 - 2021
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 1,126
400 - 392
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 1,127
1782 - 1859
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 1,128
Among historians born in Italy, Carlo Ginzburg ranks 9. Before him are Diodorus Siculus (-90), Leonardo Bruni (1370), Poggio Bracciolini (1380), Marcus Velleius Paterculus (-19), Euhemerus (-330), and Francesco Guicciardini (1483). After him are Timaeus (-350), Flavio Biondo (1388), Tyrannius Rufinus (345), Andrea Alciato (1492), Festus (390), and Philistus (-430).
90 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 3
1370 - 1444
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 4
1380 - 1459
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 5
19 BC - 31
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 6
330 BC - 250 BC
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 7
1483 - 1540
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 8
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 9
350 BC - 260 BC
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 10
1388 - 1463
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 11
345 - 411
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 12
1492 - 1550
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 13
390 - 380
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 14
430 BC - 356 BC
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 15