Abstract

WESCHE LIRA, Luis Rodrigo. Carlos Ginzburg’s Historiographic Battle: Reading against the Grain the Inquisitorial Acts of the Benandanti. Hist. graf [online]. 2021, n.56, pp.241-278.  Epub Feb 23, 2021. ISSN 1405-0927.  https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi56.330.

From the analysis of Carlo Ginzburg’s first work, Los benandanti (1966), I try to show that the historiography of the author has positioned himself on the side of those persecuted by the Inquisition. This argument is composed of three moments: 1) the analysis of historiographic and intellectual production of the work; 2) the exposition of how the beliefs of the Benandanti, an agrarian cult of the 16th and 17th century in the region of Friuli, were forced to adjust into the inquisitorial schemes of witchcraft; and 3) how the gesture of brushing the inquisitorial acts against the grain in the involuntary revelations, based on Walter Benjamin and Marc Bloch, made it possible for Ginzburg to combat the barbarity of the inquisitorial acts and their process of transmission, and thus to make room for the emergence of a deeper history of a wider set of traditions.

Keywords : Carlo Ginzburg; Benandanti; Barbarity; Historiography; Involuntary Revelations; Inquisitorial Acts.

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