Some Queries Addressed to Myself

This panoramic synthesis of his career offered by Carlo Ginzburg on the occasion of the 2010 Awards Ceremony in Rome first appeared in Premi Balzan 2010 (Milan). It was reissued on the occasion of his Balzan Lecture at the Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, on 5 October 2011, co-hosted with the Embassies of Italy and Switzerland in Washington. This latter version has been republished on Cromohs 18 (2013), with the permission of the Author and of the Balzan Foundation