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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... Reggio Emilia, in the duchy of Modena. Sanguinetti had already gone to bed when Riccardo, after fetching his two uncles at the cafe, came to his home and told the servant what was happening. Sanguinetti described his first reactions ...
... Reggio Emilia, in the duchy of Modena. Sanguinetti had already gone to bed when Riccardo, after fetching his two uncles at the cafe, came to his home and told the servant what was happening. Sanguinetti described his first reactions ...
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... 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 convince her that it would be best if ...
... 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 convince her that it would be best if ...
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... , but the city of Reggio Emilia, twenty-four kilometers farther northwest in the Po Valley. In the centuries when Jews were barred from living in Bologna, both Modena 14 the kid N. A. P. p. iN G of ed. G A R do M. or t.A. R. A.
... , but the city of Reggio Emilia, twenty-four kilometers farther northwest in the Po Valley. In the centuries when Jews were barred from living in Bologna, both Modena 14 the kid N. A. P. p. iN G of ed. G A R do M. or t.A. R. A.
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... Reggio lay in the domain of Duke Francesco V.3 Momolo Mortara was born in Reggio just two years after the Estensi duke had been restored to power in Modena following Napoleon's fall and the withdrawal of French troops from the duchy ...
... Reggio lay in the domain of Duke Francesco V.3 Momolo Mortara was born in Reggio just two years after the Estensi duke had been restored to power in Modena following Napoleon's fall and the withdrawal of French troops from the duchy ...
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... Reggio Jew could draw on a dense kin network that extended indifferently across political borders. It went without saying that the spouse should be Jewish, not only because this was required by Jewish law but because marriage of a Jew ...
... Reggio Jew could draw on a dense kin network that extended indifferently across political borders. It went without saying that the spouse should be Jewish, not only because this was required by Jewish law but because marriage of a Jew ...
Contenido
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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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