Il giudice e lo storico. Considerazioni in margine al processo Sofri.

Torino, Einaudi 1970, cm.15,5x21,5, pp.XIX-223, legatura editoriale con sovracopertina. Coll. Biblioteca di Cultura Storica,107. Prima edizione.

Modena, Franco Cosimo Panini 1996, cm.12x18,5, pp.64, 39 illustrazioni in bianco e nero num. f.t. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Figure,4.

Traduz.di Martin Ryle, Kate Soper. Introduz.di Peter Burke. London, New York, Verso 2000, cm.16x22, pp.158, 123 tavv.bn.e a col.ft. legatura ed. sopracop.fig.a col. New edition with appendices. English text. Sifting the available evidence, Carlo Ginzburg builds up a vivid portrait of Piero della Francesca’s patrons and convincingly explains the contemporary intrigues resonant in his painting. This new edition, extensively illustrated, includes additional material by Ginzburg dealing with the work of Roberto Longhi, the dating of the Arezzo Cycle, and the rediscovery of della Francesca in the twentieth century.

Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults un the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries. Introduzione di Eric J. Hobsbawm. Traduzione di John ed Anna Tedeschi, Londra, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1983, cm.15x21, pp.210, legatura editoriale con sovraccoperta figurata. Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti, literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual battles against witches and wizards in order to protect their harvests. While their bodies slept, the souls of the benandanti were able to fly into the night sky to engage in epic spiritual combat for the good of the village. Carlo Ginzburg looks at how the Inquisition's officers interpreted these tales to support their world view that the peasants were in fact practicing sorcery. The result of this cultural clash, which lasted for more than a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the benandanti into the Inquisition's mortal enemies—witches. Relying upon this exceptionally well-documented case study, Ginzburg argues that a similar transformation of attitudes—perceiving folk beliefs as diabolical witchcraft—took place all over Europe and spread to the New World. In his new preface, Ginzburg reflects on the interplay of chance and discovery, as well as on the relationship between anomalous cultural notions and historical generalizations.