The Kidnapping of Edgardo MortaraKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008 M12 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. |
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... Father Pier Gaetano Feletti, to take Edgardo because he had been baptized.” Marianna was “desperate, beside herself ... father's brother, whose name was also Angelo Padovani, was still at work in the small bank he ran in the same ...
... Father Pier Gaetano Feletti, to take Edgardo because he had been baptized.” Marianna was “desperate, beside herself ... father's brother, whose name was also Angelo Padovani, was still at work in the small bank he ran in the same ...
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... Father Feletti later recounted what went through his mind as he weighed the risks of permitting the delay. He knew full well, he said, of the “superstitions in which the Jews are steeped,” and so he feared not only that “the child might ...
... Father Feletti later recounted what went through his mind as he weighed the risks of permitting the delay. He knew full well, he said, of the “superstitions in which the Jews are steeped,” and so he feared not only that “the child might ...
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... Father Feletti to tell him what grounds he had for thinking that the child had been baptized. The Inquisitor would not respond directly. The rules of the Holy Tribunal had been scrupulously followed, he said, and there was no point in ...
... Father Feletti to tell him what grounds he had for thinking that the child had been baptized. The Inquisitor would not respond directly. The rules of the Holy Tribunal had been scrupulously followed, he said, and there was no point in ...
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... Father Pier Gaetano Feletti, to introduce more effective surveillance of the population. The Cardinal issued large manifestos, which were attached to the doors of all diocesan churches, sternly reminding his flock of the requirements of ...
... Father Pier Gaetano Feletti, to introduce more effective surveillance of the population. The Cardinal issued large manifestos, which were attached to the doors of all diocesan churches, sternly reminding his flock of the requirements of ...
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... Father Feletti—until recently prior of the convent as well as its longtime inquisitor—was thrilled to hear that the Pope would indeed be coming. The Dominicans were doubly pleased about the Pope's visit, because they hoped to enlist his ...
... Father Feletti—until recently prior of the convent as well as its longtime inquisitor—was thrilled to hear that the Pope would indeed be coming. The Dominicans were doubly pleased about the Pope's visit, because they hoped to enlist his ...
Contenido
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| 32 | |
The House of the Catechumens | 55 |
Pope Pius IX | 74 |
A Servants Sex Life | 91 |
Meeting Mother | 109 |
The Church Strikes Back | 129 |
A Matter of Principle | 143 |
The Inquisitors Trial | 205 |
Defending the Inquisitor | 222 |
The Rites of Rulers | 238 |
New Hopes for Freeing Edgardo | 247 |
Edgardos Escape | 256 |
Afterword | 299 |
Acknowledgments | 305 |
Archival Sources and Abbreviations | 329 |
Sir Moses Goes to Rome | 162 |
The Inquisitors Arrest | 184 |
The Case Against the Inquisitor | 195 |
Index | 341 |
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