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Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian of early modern Europe whose books have made pioneering contributions to the fields of microhistory, art history, literary studies, and the theory of historiography in the Italian Renaissance and early modern European history. His books include The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (1976); The Enigma of Piero della Francesca (1985); Clues, Myths and Historical Methods (1989); History: Rhetoric and Proof (1999); No Island is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective (2000); Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath (1991);The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice (1999); and Threads and Traces: True, False, Fictive (2012). Born in Turn, Ginzburg is professor emeritus at UCLA and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

Roger Chartier is a Professeur in the Collège de France and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.  He frequently lectures and teaches in the United States, Spain, México, Brazil and Argentina.  His work in Early Modern European History was rooted in the tradition of the "Annales School" and mainly dedicated to the history of education, the history of the book and the history of reading. Recently, he has focused on the relationship between written culture as a whole and literature (particularly theatrical plays) for France, England and Spain. His work in this specific field (based on the criss-crossing between literary criticism, bibliography, and sociocultural history) is not disconnected from broader historiographical and methodological interests which deal with the relation between history and other disciplines: philosophy, sociology, anthropology.