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The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice
The Judge and the Historian Marginal Notes on a LateTwentiethCentury Miscarriage of Justice Author:Carlo Ginzburg In The Judge and the Historian, 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. Through an analysis of this late-twentieth-century political show-trial, Ginzburg demonstrates the impo... more »rtance of intellectual rigour and passion against political opportunism and dishonesty at the end of the twentieth-century.« less