Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg (; born 15 April 1939) is an Italian historian and a proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for ''The Cheese and the Worms'' (1976), which examined the beliefs of Italian heretic Menocchio from Friuli.

In 1966, he published ''The Night Battles'', an examination of the ''benandanti'' visionary folk tradition found in 16th- and 17th-century Friuli. He returned to looking at the visionary traditions of early modern Europe for his 1989 book ''Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath''. Provided by Wikipedia