Historians will remember Ginzburg as the microhistory author that brought us such bangers as The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. Readers of fantasy novels may recognize his work on the Benandanti as the inspiration for plot points of Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana. Semioticians may recall him as having something published in a collection edited by Umberto Eco.
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Magic and the supernatural are such interesting topics in medieval/early modern history. The problems with teasing out the extent to which people believed in it literally is so fascinating. Going to pick this up. How is the writing? The topic seems interesting enough and the scholarship good enough for me to endure a drier read, but I might read it sooner if it is well-written and engaging.
I think the writing is excellent. Ginzburg's writings aren't as clear as Lincoln's prose, but that may be because some of his stuff is translated from Italian. For as conceptually heady as it is though, I wouldn't call it dry. The last third of the book is the transcript of a dialogue and that's really breezy. It is short though, less than 200 pages without the appendices.
The transcript of the trial is available at the publisher's website if you'd like to dip your feet in first! https://press.uchicago.edu/sites/thiess/old_thiess_transcript.pdf