The Kidnapping of Edgardo MortaraKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998 M06 30 - 368 páginas Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award Finalist The extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy. Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized" by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed. With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a historical thriller and an authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history. |
Contenido
Pope Pius | 9 |
A Servants Sex Life | 10 |
Drama at Alatri | 11 |
Meeting Mother | 12 |
The International Protests Spread | 13 |
The Church Strikes Back | 14 |
A Matter of Principle | 15 |
Sir Moses Goes to Rome | 16 |
Uprising in Bologna | 17 |
ix | 49 |
23 | 146 |
13 | 170 |
162 | 173 |
The Inquisitors Arrest 184 | 203 |
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