Carlo Ginzburg is one of the leading historians, writers and cultural icons in present-day Italy. His academic specialty is heresy in Renaisance Italy, about which he has publish extensively.
His most famous books are The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller and Ecstasies:Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath .
This review appeared in La Corriere della Sera:
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