Gods, Humans, Apes. On the 18th-Century Reception of Winckelmann’s History
Presented By
The Gennadius Library
Speaker(s)
Carlo Ginzburg, UCLA/Scuola Normale di Pisa
Location
ASCSA, Cotsen Hall, 9 Anapiron Polemou, 106 76 AthensContact
210-72.10.536 (ext. 301)Carlo Ginzburg (1939) has taught at the University of Bologna, at UCLA, at the Scuola Normale of Pisa. His books, translated into more than twenty languages, include The Night Battles; The Cheese and the Worms (Greek translation: To tiri kai ta skoulekia. O kosmos enos mulona tou 16ou aiona, 1994); Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method; The Enigma of Piero della Francesca; History, Rhetoric, and Proof; The Judge and the Historian (Greek translation: Ho dikastes kai ho historikos. Skepseis sto perithorio tes dikes Sophri, 2003); Wooden Eyes (Greek translation: Xulyna Matia. Ennea stochasmoi gia ten apostase, 2006); No Island is an Island; Threads and Traces; Fear Reverence Terror: Five Essays in Political Iconography; Nondimanco. Machiavelli, Pascal. He received the Aby Warburg Prize (1992), the Humboldt-Forschungs Prize (2007), the Balzan Prize for the History of Europe, 1400-1700 (2010).