Den italienske historiker Carlo Ginzburg hører til blandt vor tids mest originale tænkere. Han blev født i 1939, som søn af forfatteren Natalia Ginzburg og professor... Læs mere
From the master of "micro-history", a reconstruction of two contrasting early-modern thinkers
Historian Carlo Ginzburg here draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the 16th and 17th centuries to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of the state's case in the late-20th century political show trial of Italian communists, Continua, Sofri, Bompressi and Piotresetafani.