Threads and Traces by Carlo Ginzburg - Paper - University of California Press

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“No other living historian approaches the range of [Ginzburg’s] erudition. Every page of Threads and Traces, his latest work to appear in English, offers an illustration of it.”
— London Review Of Books

“Ginzburg’s range is remarkable . . . rich in references to and insights about diverse historical perspectives.”
— Publishers Weekly

“A collection of essays by the profoundly original, intellectually wide-ranging, Italian-Jewish historian Carlo Ginzburg underlines the influence of Yiddishkeit on his achievement . . . an illuminating collection of chapters, deftly translated from the original Italian by Anne C. and John Tedeschi.”
— Forward

“Threads and Traces ranges from Late Antiquity to postwar America. There seems to be nothing of intellectual value written since Plato in a European language that Ginzburg has not read and assimilated. Taken together, these essays humanely and generously explore the question of how history ought to be written.”
— The Literary Review

“Surprising pace, intellectual range, and learned discourse is typical throughout the book. . . . Illustrating, case by case, the complicated place of truth and reality in historical research, these artfully constructed essays demonstrate in addition the historian’s delight at the discoveries that probing scholarship uncovers.”
— Jrnl Of Interdisciplinary History

“This is a brilliant text, the product of a scholar of rare breadth and knowledge. . . . Rare indeed are those who can look as deeply as Carlo Ginzburg.”
— Melbourne Historical Jrnl

“Carlo Ginzburg weaves a spell-binding web of learning and surprises as he explores the question of truth in history and fiction and his own multiple engagement with the past. Whether dealing with Montaigne’s cannibals, Italian shamans, or anti-Semitic forgeries, Threads and Traces is a powerful and moving statement of the stakes in historical knowledge from one of our greatest historians.” —Natalie Zemon Davis, author of Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

Previous Praise for Carlo Ginzburg

“Ginzburg is a historian with an insatiable curiosity, who pursues even the faintest of clues with all the zest of a born detective until every fragment of evidence can be fitted into place.” —J.H. Elliott, New York Review of Books

“Carlo Ginzburg has many claims to be considered the outstanding European historian of the generation which came of age in the late Sixties. Certainly few have equalled him in originality, variety and audacity.” —Perry Anderson, London Review of Books

“Ginzburg's scholarship is dazzling and profound.” —Publisher’s Weekly

Threads and Traces

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Threads and Traces

About the Book

About the Author

Table of Contents

Reviews