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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Published: 08/17/2002
ISBN: 9781859843710
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.48w x 0.65d