Involuntary Revelations: Reading Historical Evidence Against the Grain by Carlo Ginzburg (2014-15 Lectures in Criticism)

Carlo Ginzburg was born in Turin, Italy, in 1939, and received a PhD from the University of Pisa in 1961. He is Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies at UCLA. He is the author of The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of the Sixteenth-Century Miller, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath and The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The 2014-15 Lectures in Criticism are presented by the Center for Humanities, the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, the Department of Romance Studies, and the Department of English. Carlo Ginzburg's lecture on April 13 is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe.