This is the fifth appointment of the series "GIF Talks: Encounters with writers in Florence", curated by Alessandro Raveggi, writer and professor, in collaboration with The Florence Review.
Carlo Ginzburg (1939) taught at the University of Bologna, at UCLA, at the Scuola Normale of Pisa. His books, translated into more than twenty languages, include The Night Battles ([1966] 1983); The Cheese and the Worms ([1976] 1980); The Enigma of Piero della Francesca ([1981] 1985); Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method ([1986] 1989); Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath ([1989] 1990); The Judge and the Historian ([1991] 1999); Wooden Eyes ([1998] 2001); History, Rhetoric, and Proof (1999); No Island is an Island (2000); Threads and Traces ([2006] 2012); Fear Reverence Terror: Five Essays in Political Iconography ([2015] 2017); Nevertheless. Machiavelli, Pascal ([2018] 2021); La lettera uccide. He received many awards, including the Aby Warburg Prize (1992), the Humboldt-Forschungs Prize (2007), the Balzan Prize for the History of Europe, 1400-1700 (2010).
