New Delhi, June 18 -- Carlo Ginzburg, an Italian historian whose pioneering work transformed the study of the past by recovering the voices of marginalized people, died Wednesday at 87.

The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he was both a student and professor emeritus, said he died in the northern Italian city of Bologna.

Ginzburg was a pioneer of microhistory, which focuses on small, specific units of analysis - such as an individual, a community, or a singular event - to reveal broader themes and issues within history.

A leading figure in contemporary historiography, Ginzburg developed the so-called "evidential paradigm," a method based on interpreting clues, traces and seemingly minor details to reconstruct the experiences of ...