Incontro con Carlo Ginzburg, Miti emblemi spie (Adelphi) con Giovanni Levi.

September 13, 2023. This extraordinary collection of essays addresses many varied themes: from witchcraft to the prohibition of knowing what is above, both literally and metaphorically; from Titian's erotic paintings to Freud's "Wolf Man," interpreted as a failed werewolf; from Aby Warburg and his followers to the intertwining of reflections on myth and Nazi ideology in the writings of Georges Dumézil. What links such disparate research? The preface to the first edition emphasized morphology, used "as a probe, to probe a layer unattainable by the usual instruments of historical knowledge." And morphology is returned to, from a different perspective, in the newly added unpublished writings, which hinge on the notion of an "invisible text" (and therefore reproducible) proposed in Spies: Roots of an Evidence-Based Paradigm. In this new edition, Ginzburg rereads the book, also starting from a fundamental theme that, at least apparently, was missing from Spies: the relationship between clues and evidence. Is it fair to assume (as the author himself had done in the past) that the cognitive richness of the clues had led to a neglect of the importance of evidence? A devil's advocate doubt, which led to a reexamination from an unexpected angle of the sequence that, starting from the Morelli-Freud-Sherlock Holmes triad, projects the reader on the one hand towards Neolithic hunters, on the other towards the present. And an invitation to transform ourselves into clue hunters, to try to answer this and other questions. https://tinyurl.com/c5f7vvmx Event as part of the Le Voci dei Libri series.