ABSTRACT
The aim of this essay is to discuss the contributions offered by Carlo Ginzburg to an international historiographical debate that has lasted since the beginning of the 21st century: is Italian microhistory still relevant in a context dominated by Global History? However, it should be noted that we will analyze this contribution of Ginzburg from the literary procedures adapted from the History of Art by Aby Warburg and the Philology of Erich Auerbach. To do this, we will examine how the author of the cheese and the worms uses the concept of Logosformeln to analyze the way in which ideas and memories move through time and space. We will observe how the philological reading of historical sources enabled him to produce case studies capable of clarifying global effects of human behavior
Keywords:
Carlo Ginzburg; Logosformeln; Erich Auerbach; philology; microhistory