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Carlo Ginzburg

Radical Cowherds

Radical Cowherds

Jacinta Mulders, The Believer, June 2021

With Ginzburg, history is inclusive. He explores the lives of everyday people in a certain region of Italy that, before his work, had been hidden from contemporary consciousness. It is a mode of honouring. By writing in unwritten stories, Ginzburg insists on a history in which more people feel at home.

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