The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice
- ISBN 10: 1859848699
- ISBN 13: 9781859848692
- Author: Carlo Ginzburg
- Edition: Hardcover
- Release: 0000-00-00
- Format: Hardcover (192 pages)
- List Price: $22.00
- Tags: Law, Criminal Law, History, Europe, Italy, Perspectives on Law
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Book Description: December 12, 1969 _ the highpoint of Italy's 'Hot Autumn'--the country is rocked by strikes, demonstrations and an insurgent extra-parliamentary left. A bomb explodes in the Agricultural Bank in Milan: sixteen people are killed. Anarchist railwayman Giuseppe Pinelli is taken in for questioning by the police. Three days later, Pinelli (later immortalised in Dario Fo's play The Accidental Death of an Anarchist) plummets to his death from the window of police commissioner Luigi Calabresi's office. The police claim suicide, the left accuses them of murder. May 17, 1972--Luigi Calabresi is killed with two revolver shots in front of his home. Lotta Continua, the far-left paper, applauds this act of proletarian justice. Right-wing extremists are suspected but no one is convicted. July 19, 1988--Leonardo Marino, ex-Fiat worker, former armed robber and member of Lotta Continua, gives himself up to the police, claiming responsibility for the murder of Calabresi. Then starts a judicial enquiry in which Marino implicates the leadership of Lotta Continua, including Adriano Sofri, Ovidio Bompressi and Giorgio Piotresetafani, in the affair. Taking its revenge for humiliation in the 1960s, the Italian state imprisons the leftists and drags them through a series of dubious court cases. In Accidental Imprisonment of a Communist, 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. Carefully exposing the twists and turns of the various trials, Ginzburg also takes the opportunity to reflect more generally on the similarities and differences between the roles of the historian and the judge. Standing in the tradition of Emile Zola's famous J'accuse polemic against the Dreyfus trial at the end of the last century, Ginzburg's book demonstrates the continuing potency of intellectual rigour and passion against political opportunism and dishonesty at the end of this century.
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