The Guardian view on the death of Carlo Ginzburg: a historian who taught us to think about outsiders | Editorial

The work of one of Italy’s greatest scholars focused on ordinary lives oppressed by power and prejudice. That approach resonates today Reflecting on the genesis of his most famous work, Carlo Ginzburg wrote that by immersing himself in the trial of a 16th-century miller burned by the Roman Inqui...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/22/the-guardian-view-on-the-death-of-carlo-ginzburg-a-historian-who-taught-us-to-think-about-outsiders)