Overview

A bomb, an anarchist's 'accidental death', the murder of a police commissar, and the confession of a former member of Lotta Continua led to seven dubious court cases and a tale of political opportunism and dishonesty. Standing in the tradition of Emile Zola's famous J'accuse polemic against the Dreyfus trial at the end of the nineteenth-century, the historian Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of the state's case in this late-twentieth-century political show-trial and reflects more generally on the similarities and differences between the roles of the historian and the judge.

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Author:   Carlo Ginzburg ,  Antony Shugaar
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.10cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9781859843710

ISBN 10:   1859843719
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   17 August 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Italy's foremost historian, Carlo Ginzburg -- and the publication of his book -- has rocked the folundations of the Italian legal system ... Ginzburg is the type of historian who revels in detective work ... he has sleuthed and deduced with tenacity and the finely tuned sensory apparatus of a bloodhound. -- Financial Times In the tradition of Ginzburg's work as a narrative historian, sculpting story-like shapes out of ancient and unexamined pasts, he offers the reader the evidence, giving the public the tools to examine this modern, ongoing history. - Bomb In its brilliance and force, Ginzburg's attack on magisterial malfeasance equals the war of Emile Zola 100 years ago. - Choice

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"Carlo Ginzburg has been a pioneer of ""micro-history"" since his earliest works, The Night Battles and The Cheese and the Worms (the first of his books to appear in English, winning instant acclaim). His latest book is Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf, co-authored with Bruce Lincoln."

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