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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... Giuseppe Agostini, in civilian clothes, following him in. The sight of the military police of the Papal States coming inexplicably in the night filled Marianna with dread. The Marshal, not at all happy about the mission before him, and ...
... Giuseppe Agostini, in civilian clothes, following him in. The sight of the military police of the Papal States coming inexplicably in the night filled Marianna with dread. The Marshal, not at all happy about the mission before him, and ...
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... Giuseppe Milesi, and the city's famous but controversial archbishop, Michele Cardinal Viale-Prela. Encouraged by the diplomatic success enjoyed by Marianna's brother-in-law and uncle the night before at San Domenico, Momolo and Marianna ...
... Giuseppe Milesi, and the city's famous but controversial archbishop, Michele Cardinal Viale-Prela. Encouraged by the diplomatic success enjoyed by Marianna's brother-in-law and uncle the night before at San Domenico, Momolo and Marianna ...
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... Giuseppe Milesi Pironi Ferretti had come to Bologna just two months earlier, having at age 41 been simultaneously named a cardinal and appointed legate to the province of Bologna. Arriving to take up his new duties in Bologna on the ...
... Giuseppe Milesi Pironi Ferretti had come to Bologna just two months earlier, having at age 41 been simultaneously named a cardinal and appointed legate to the province of Bologna. Arriving to take up his new duties in Bologna on the ...
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... Giuseppe Vitta, a fellow Jew from Reggio who lived near the Mortaras in Bologna, offered to take Marianna to his own apartment, where his wife was waiting. Vitta, along with Momolo and Marianna's brother, spent two hours trying to ...
... Giuseppe Vitta, a fellow Jew from Reggio who lived near the Mortaras in Bologna, offered to take Marianna to his own apartment, where his wife was waiting. Vitta, along with Momolo and Marianna's brother, spent two hours trying to ...
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... Giuseppe Vitta, back after having delivered Marianna to his wife's care. Marshal Lucidi had meanwhile prepared carefully for the child's departure. Brigadier Agostini, Lucidi's silent companion of the night before, was assigned the task ...
... Giuseppe Vitta, back after having delivered Marianna to his wife's care. Marshal Lucidi had meanwhile prepared carefully for the child's departure. Brigadier Agostini, Lucidi's silent companion of the night before, was assigned the task ...
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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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