The Judge and the Historian. Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice.

First edition in English. 8vo. Pp. xii, 211. Beige linen cloth, stamped in green to spine; teal green endpapers. With Translator's Note, Addendum by the Author, Notes, Postscript, Afterword, Chronology. Originally published as Il giudice e lo storico by Einaudi, Torino, in 1991.

In December 1969, a bomb exploded in the Agricultural Bank in Milan, killing 16 people. An anarchist, Giuseppe Pinelli, was taken in for questioning. Three days later, Pinelli (immortalized in Dario Fo's play The Accidental Death of an Anarchist) fell to his death from the police commissioner's office window. In the tradition of Emile Zola's 'J'accuse' polemic against the Dreyfus trial, the author dissects the weaknesses and contradictions of the state's case in this political show-trial.