Threads and traces : true, false, fictive / / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi.
"This book is a translation of historian Carlo Ginzburg's latest collection of essays. Through the detective work of uncovering a wide variety of stories or microhistories from fragments, Ginzburg takes on the bigger questions: How do we draw the line between truth and fiction? What is the...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English Italian |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 328 p. :; ill. |
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| Other title: | Filo e le tracce. |
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| Summary: | "This book is a translation of historian Carlo Ginzburg's latest collection of essays. Through the detective work of uncovering a wide variety of stories or microhistories from fragments, Ginzburg takes on the bigger questions: How do we draw the line between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? Stories range from medieval Europe, the inquisitional trial of a witch, seventeenth-century antiquarianism, and twentieth-century historians."-- |
| ISBN: | 9780520259614 (hardback) 9780520949843 (electronic bk.) |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi. |