He called his field of research "microhistory," and his best-known work, in Swedish, is "The Cheese and the Worms: A 16th-Century Miller's Thoughts on Creation", which was published in a new edition last year.
In it, Ginzburg depicts a 16th-century miller who was executed during the Inquisition because of his ideas about how the world was created.
Carlo Ginzburg grew up with his mother, the author Natalia Ginzburg, whose 1963 novel "Familjelexikon" was republished in Swedish in 2021. His father was imprisoned by the Gestapo and died in prison when Carlo was not yet five.
Carlo Ginzburg often returned to his father's death as central to his interest in marginalized people.
