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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... arrived in his quarters when the senior senator of Bologna came to pay his respects in diplomatic style , followed by many noble person- ages and citizens , the usual ones who bow before power ! Those who have seen him say that the new ...
... arrived in his quarters when the senior senator of Bologna came to pay his respects in diplomatic style , followed by many noble person- ages and citizens , the usual ones who bow before power ! Those who have seen him say that the new ...
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... arrived in midmorning and found Marianna still clutching Edgardo , sobbing . As Rosina moved to comfort Edgardo , he gave his aunt a kiss . and , gesturing toward the policemen who remained ever at his side , told her simply , " They ...
... arrived in midmorning and found Marianna still clutching Edgardo , sobbing . As Rosina moved to comfort Edgardo , he gave his aunt a kiss . and , gesturing toward the policemen who remained ever at his side , told her simply , " They ...
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... arrived at the convent and were ushered into the Inquisitor's rooms. Momolo, in a loud but unsteady voice, declared that there had surely been some mistake about the supposed baptism of his son, and asked Father Feletti to tell him what ...
... arrived at the convent and were ushered into the Inquisitor's rooms. Momolo, in a loud but unsteady voice, declared that there had surely been some mistake about the supposed baptism of his son, and asked Father Feletti to tell him what ...
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... arrived with their children, Marianna's parents, her uncle, and her married brother and sister also moved there. As they were debating the move, dramatic events unfolding in the larger world could not be ignored. The year 1848 was one ...
... arrived with their children, Marianna's parents, her uncle, and her married brother and sister also moved there. As they were debating the move, dramatic events unfolding in the larger world could not be ignored. The year 1848 was one ...
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... arrived: the Pope had decided to make a journey to the Legations, and would be spending a full two months in Bologna, aimed at showing the world how fond his subjects were of him and how committed they were to continued pontifical rule ...
... arrived: the Pope had decided to make a journey to the Legations, and would be spending a full two months in Bologna, aimed at showing the world how fond his subjects were of him and how committed they were to continued pontifical rule ...
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