Also at the Verso blog – ‘There is always in history this possibility of the unexpected’: Interview with Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg, author of The Cheese and the Worms, is one of Europe’s most influential historians. In this interview with Claire Zalc, Ginzburg discusses the influence of his parents – the novelist Natalia Ginzburg and scholar of Russian literature Leone Ginzburg – his childhood in Fascist Italy, historical method, Aby Warburg, and the continuing importance of historical scholarship.