Playing Roulette in the Archives
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It was like falling in love: passionate, immediate, and naive. In the library at the Scuola Normale in Pisa, Carlo Ginzburg, age 20, made three decisions in the same instant: to become a historian, to study witchcraft trials, and to try and rescue (to use his term) the voices of the defendants. Ginzburg knew so […]
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