The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice by Ginzburg, Carlo
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The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice by Ginzburg, Carlo

The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice

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Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century witchcraft trials to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of Italy's case against Adriano Sofri, figurehead of the Italian Left, demonstrating the importance of intellectual rigor and passion against political opportunism and dishonesty at the end of the twentieth-century.

Author: Carlo Ginzburg
Publisher: Verso
Published: 08/17/2002
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.48w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9781859843710
ISBN10: 1859843719
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Italy

About the Author
Carlo Ginzburg was born in Turin and now teaches at UCLA. He is the author of The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of the Sixteenth-Century Miller, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath and The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.