Norte de Italia, finales del siglo XVI. El Santo Oficio acusa de herejía a un molinero, Domenico Scandella, al que todos llaman Menocchio. El procesado sostiene que el mundo se originó en «un caos» del que surgió «un...
En otros tiempos era lícito 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, expugnaron o simplemente...
Els «benandanti», com eren anomenats al Friül durant l''Època Moderna els portadors d''un culte a la fertilitat, es presentaven en un primer moment, al segle XVI, com a protectors de les collites contra les bruixes...
En aquest breu assaig, lhistoriador Carlo Ginzburg fa una lectura del Leviatan de Hobbes des de la contemporaneïtat, i centra el seu discurs no solament en els antecedents i la manera com es va gestar aquesta obra, sinó en una de les...
Un libro bellamente escrito que narra la historia del molinero friulano Domenico Scandella, conocido como a Menocchio, que murió en la hoguera por orden del Santo Oficio a fines del siglo XVI. Un estudio que se ha convertido en un clásico...
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?
Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of the discipline of microhistory ever since his earliest works were published to great acclaim in the 1970s. The Soul of Brutes brings together four of Ginzburg's recent scintillating essays and lectures that...
We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding us...
Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti , literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual...
More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Itali...
A bomb, an anarchistâs âaccidental deathâ, the murder of a police commissar, and the confession of a former member of Lotta Continua led to seven dubious court cases and a tale of political opportunism...
Weaving early accounts of witchcraftâtrial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconographyâinto new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in Ecstasies compelling evidence of a hidden shamanis...
Sifting the available evidence, Carlo Ginzburg builds up a vivid portrait of Piero della Francescaâs patrons and convincingly explains the contemporary intrigues resonant in his painting. This new edition, extensively illustrated, includ...