Some of the many tributes to Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026)

There are too many to try to be comprehensive, but here are a few of the tributes and reposts of older material celebrating the life and career of the remarkable historian Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026).

Obituary by John Foot in The Guardian

Obituary by Giada Sampan in The Independent

Anne Dujin, Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, founding figure of microhistory, has died, Le Monde

Maria Galeotti, Italian Historian Carlo Ginzburg, Pioneer of Microhistory, Dies, La Voce di New York

Cora Presezzi, Fragments of Distant Lives, Unknown and Familiar, Verso blog

Himadri Sekhar Mistri, Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026): The historian of hidden lives, Frontline

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Exploring the World of Carlo Ginzburg, The Wire

Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026): An Obituary of a Historian of the Fragment in an Age of Retreat, A Trumpet of Sedition

Peter Burke, From the Archive: Carlo Ginzburg, Verso blog

Interview with David Gutherz, The Point 

Perry Anderson, Witchcraft (1990), London Review of Books

Brief notes at Leo Baeck Institute, American Academy in Rome and UCLA History department

I’m happy to add more if shared in comments.


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