The Judge And The Historian: Marginal Notes On A Late-twentieth-century Miscarriage Of Justice

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, figure-head of the Italian Left. Through an analysis of this late-twentieth-century political show-trial, Ginzburg demonstrates the importance of intellectual rigour and passion against political opportunism and dishonesty at the end of the twentieth-century.