Carlo Ginzburg (1939) has taught at the University of Bologna, at UCLA, at the Scuola Normale of Pisa. His books, translated into more than twenty languages, include The Night Battles; The Cheese and the Worms (Greek translation: To tiri kai ta skoulekia. O kosmos enos mulona tou 16ou aiona, 1994); Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method; The Enigma of Piero della Francesca; History, Rhetoric, and Proof; The Judge and the Historian (Greek translation: Ho dikastes kai ho historikos. Skepseis sto perithorio tes dikes Sophri, 2003); Wooden Eyes (Greek translation: Xulyna Matia. Ennea stochasmoi gia ten apostase,  2006); No Island is an Island; Threads and Traces; Fear Reverence Terror: Five Essays in Political Iconography; Nondimanco. Machiavelli, Pascal. He received the Aby Warburg Prize (1992), the Humboldt-Forschungs Prize (2007), the Balzan Prize for the History of Europe, 1400-1700 (2010).