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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... Jews, “the Pope's Jews.” Having lived in Italy since before there were any Christians, they nonetheless could not shake off their status as outsiders, petitioners for the privilege of being allowed to remain where they were. Few in ...
... Jews, “the Pope's Jews.” Having lived in Italy since before there were any Christians, they nonetheless could not shake off their status as outsiders, petitioners for the privilege of being allowed to remain where they were. Few in ...
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... Jews were obeyed. For two centuries, Bologna's inquisitors had had little reason to worry about the Jews, for in 1593 the Pope had expelled all nine hundred of them from the city and its surrounding territories. In the wake of the ...
... Jews were obeyed. For two centuries, Bologna's inquisitors had had little reason to worry about the Jews, for in 1593 the Pope had expelled all nine hundred of them from the city and its surrounding territories. In the wake of the ...
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... Jews over the past centuries had occasionally used with success, even with popes. However, no one thought Viale ... Jew from Reggio who lived near the Mortaras in Bologna, offered to take Marianna to his own apartment, where his wife was ...
... Jews over the past centuries had occasionally used with success, even with popes. However, no one thought Viale ... Jew from Reggio who lived near the Mortaras in Bologna, offered to take Marianna to his own apartment, where his wife was ...
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... Jews lived. Hebrew book printers and famed Jewish scholars complemented Bologna's reputation as a center of learning. The sixteenth century, however, was not kind to Italy's Jews. The Roman Church, besieged farther north in Europe by ...
... Jews lived. Hebrew book printers and famed Jewish scholars complemented Bologna's reputation as a center of learning. The sixteenth century, however, was not kind to Italy's Jews. The Roman Church, besieged farther north in Europe by ...
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... Jews were told to move to a single, walled-in zone, in the shadow of Bologna's famed two towers. The 1555 papal decree calling for the confinement of the Jews, Cum nimis absurdum, grew out of basic Church theology: “It is absurd and ...
... Jews were told to move to a single, walled-in zone, in the shadow of Bologna's famed two towers. The 1555 papal decree calling for the confinement of the Jews, Cum nimis absurdum, grew out of basic Church theology: “It is absurd and ...
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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