Carlo Ginzburg

Tells the story of a sixteenth century miller who was burned at the stake for his controversial views on creation.

The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

The Cheese and the Worms

Bir 16. Yüzyil Degirmencisinin Evreni

Peynir ve Kurtlar

El Queso y Los Gusanos

Weaving early accounts of witchcraft—trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography—into new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in Ecstasies compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across Europe and in England for thousands of years.

Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath

Ecstasies

o cotidiano e as ideias de um moleiro perseguido pela inquisiçao

O queijo e os vermes

Il formaggio e i vermi. Il cosmo di un mugnaio del '500

Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

The Night Battles

Narrando a vida de um obscuro herege do século XVI, Ginzburg escreve uma história envolvente sobre a cultura popular e erudita na época da Inquisição, quando cosmogonias como as formuladas pelo moleiro Menocchio eram motivo de condenação religiosa e moral. Ao pesquisar uma seita italiana de curandeiros e bruxos, o historiador Carlo Ginzburg deparou-se com um julgamento excepcionalmente detalhado. Tratava-se do depoimento de Menocchio, um moleiro do norte da Itália, que no século XVI ousara afirmar que o mundo tinha origem na putrefação: "Tudo era um caos, isto é, terra, ar, água e fogo juntos, e de todo aquele volume em movimento se formou uma massa, do mesmo modo como o queijo é feito do leite, e do qual surgem os vermes, e esses foram os anjos". Graças ao fascínio dos inquisidores pelas crenças desse moleiro, Ginzburg encontrou farta documentação, a partir da qual pôde reconsturir a trajetória de Menocchio num texto claro e atraente, e desembocar em uma hipótese geral sobre a cultura popular da Europa pré-industrial. "O trabalho de reconstrução é brilhante, o estilo extremamente agradável e, ao fim do livro, o leitor que seguiu os passos de Carlo Ginzburg, em seu passeio através da mente labiríntica do moleiro de Friuli, abandonará com pesar a companhia dessa estranha personagem." The New York Review of Books

O cotidiano e as ideias de um moleiro perseguido pela Inquisição

From the master of "micro-history" a reconstruction of two contrasting early-modern thinkers Nevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma (,) in the subtitle: Machiavelli, Pascal. Is this comma a conjunction or a disjunction? In fact, both. Ginzburg approaches Machiavelli's work from the perspective of casuistry, or case-based ethical reasoning. For as Machiavelli indicated through his repeated use of the adverb nondimanco ("nevertheless"), there is an exception to every rule. Such a perspective may seem to echo the traditional image of Machiavelli as a cynical, "machiavellian" thinker. But a close analysis of Machiavelli the reader, as well as of the ways in which some of Machiavelli's most perceptive readers read his work, throws a different light on Machiavelli the writer. The same hermeneutic strategy inspires the essays on the Provinciales, Pascal's ferocious attack against Jesuitical casuistry. Casuistry vs anti-casuistry; Machiavelli's secular attitude towards religion vs Pascal's deep religiosity. We are confronted, apparently, with two completely different worlds. But Pascal read Machiavelli, and reflected deeply upon his work. A belated, contemporary echo of this reading can unveil the complex relationship between Machiavelli and Pascal - their divergences as well as their unexpected convergences.

Machiavelli, Pascal

Nevertheless

die Welt eines Müllers um 1600

Der Käse und die Würmer

Carlo Ginzburg’s brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades of post-structuralism: What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? How do we grapple with the historical conventions that inform, in different ways, all written documents? In his answers, Ginzburg peels away layers of subsequent readings and interpretations that envelop every text to make a larger argument about history and fiction. Interwoven with compelling autobiographical references, Threads and Traces bears moving witness to Ginzburg’s life as a European Jew, the abiding strength of his scholarship, and his deep engagement with the historian’s craft.

True False Fictive

Threads and Traces

"In the diversity of methods and objects of analysis it offers, Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method offers a fresh perspective on this Italian historian who has become such an essential point of reference in many domains of cultural study today." -- Dana Polan, Camera Obscura.

Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

Cet ouvrage fait revivre l'étrange secte agraire des " Benandanti ", confrérie de sorciers frioulans contemporains de nos guerres de religion. Combattants du Bien, ils luttent, armés de tiges de fenouil, contre les mauvais sorciers, qui brandissent des tiges de sorgho pour se défendre. Ces combats, qui se déroulent en rêve, ont une issue déterminante pour les récoltes : si les bons magiciens ont le dessus, celles-ci seront prospères au cours de l'année qui vient. En revanche, si les méchants sorciers l'emportent, la famine menacera. L'Eglise frioulane des années 1580-1650 est prise de court face à ces phénomènes : elle ne comprend pas ces pratiques à demi païennes, inspirées cependant, aux dires des Benandanti, par des ordres célestes. Les inquisiteurs, déconcertés, ne brûlent ni ne torturent les tenants de la secte, mais tentent de leur faire avouer que les " batailles nocturnes " sont une simple réédition du classique sabbat. Le décalage entre l'image proposée par les juges au cours des interrogatoires et celle fournie par les accusés permet ainsi d'atteindre une " couche de croyances spécifiquement populaires, déformées puis effacées par l'imposition du schéma savant ", une religiosité non chrétienne liée à la fécondité agricole dont bien peu de témoignages subsistent.

sorcellerie et rituels agraires aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles

Les batailles nocturnes

Antes era válido acusar a quienes historiaban el pasado de consignar únicamente las «gestas de los reyes». Hoy día ya no lo es, pues cada vez se investiga más sobre lo que ellos callaron, expurgaron o simplemente ignoraron. «¿Quién construyó Tebas de las siete puertas?», pregunta el lector obrero de Brecht. Las fuentes nada nos dicen de aquellos albañiles anónimos, pero la pregunta conserva toda su carga (Carlo Ginzburg).

El cosmos según un molinero del siglo XVI

El queso y los gusanos

Occhiacci di legno. Nove riflessioni sulla distanza

svět jednoho mlynáře kolem roku 1600

Sýr a červi

Franklin D Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies Carlo Ginzburg

קרלו גינצבורג

One of the world's leading historians delivers a pathbreaking analysis of truth and rhetoric in the writing of history.

History, Rhetoric, and Proof

morfologia e storia

Miti, emblemi, spie

In The Judge and the Historian, Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century witchcraft trials to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of Italy's case against Adriano Sofri, figurehead of the Italian Left. Through an analysis of this late-twentieth-century political show-trial, Ginzburg demonstrates the importance of intellectual rigour and passion against political opportunism and dishonesty at the end of the twentieth-century.

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