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Speaker: Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA / Scuola Normale Superiore)
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Carlo Ginzburg is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bologna, at UCLA, and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. His books and essays, translated into 30 languages, include The Night Battles; The Cheese and the Worms; Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method; The Enigma of Piero; Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath; History, Rhetoric, and Proof; Threads and Traces: True False Fictive; Fear, Reverence, Terror: Five Essays in Political Iconography; Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal; La lettera uccide; Il vincolo della vergogna. His research areas range from the Italian Renaissance to early modern European history, with contributions to art history, literary studies and the historical method. He has received awards including the Aby Warburg Prize, Humboldt-Forschungs Prize, Balzan Prize for European History, 1400–1700 and the Hemingway Prize.
Image: Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait (detail), 1434. Oil on oak panel. The National Gallery, London.
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