History, Rhetoric, and Proof

by Carlo Ginzburg

Book Overview

Historian Carlo Ginzburg uses the occasion of his Menachem Stern Lectureship to present a provocative and characteristically brilliant examination of the relation between rhetoric and historiography. In four lectures, based on a wide range of texts -- Aristotle's Poetics; humanist Lorenzo Valla's tract exposing the Donation of Constantine as a forgery; an early 18th-century Jesuit historical account purporting to record the diatribe of a Mariana Island...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874519330
• ISBN13: 9780874519334
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Historical Society of Israel
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"