Original sentence: Cipolla was welcomed as a member of many prestigious academies and in 1995 received the Balzan prize.This was to be the first stop in a long academic career in Italy (Venice, Turin, Pavia, Pisa and Fiesole) and abroad
Edited sentence: In 1995 he received the Balzan Prize with this motivation "Carlo Maria Cipolla is considered by his peers as a leader in economic history who knew how to instill a spirit of innovation in the discipline.Thanks to his intellectual curiosity, dominated by the most rigorous thought and methodology, and through meticulous research of source material, he has combined the macro-historic approach with studies in micro-history in works of great originality and solidity, which cover a broad range of economic and cultural fields".This was to be the first stop in a long academic career in Italy (Venice, Turin, Pavia, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Fiesole) and abroad