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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... papal power and traditional authority uneasily faced the disparate progeny of the Enlightenment, the French ... rule; and even conservatives began to wonder whether the old order could stand much longer. New gods were being born, new ...
... papal power and traditional authority uneasily faced the disparate progeny of the Enlightenment, the French ... rule; and even conservatives began to wonder whether the old order could stand much longer. New gods were being born, new ...
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... Papal States were restored, what had once appeared so solid—a product of the divine order of things—now seemed terribly fragile. Conspiracies against the Pope's worldly rule sprouted; revolts broke out. At midcentury another pope was ...
... Papal States were restored, what had once appeared so solid—a product of the divine order of things—now seemed terribly fragile. Conspiracies against the Pope's worldly rule sprouted; revolts broke out. At midcentury another pope was ...
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... Pope Julius II into Bologna in 1506, the city and its territories were annexed to the Pontifical State. Giuseppe ... papal rule, and against the Austrian troops who for years had enforced it, pervaded the city. Enrico Bottrigari, one ...
... Pope Julius II into Bologna in 1506, the city and its territories were annexed to the Pontifical State. Giuseppe ... papal rule, and against the Austrian troops who for years had enforced it, pervaded the city. Enrico Bottrigari, one ...
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... rule, the two areas had been joined together in a single government.” When papal rule was restored in 1814 at the end of the Napoleonic wars, the Church had tried to impose tighter control over the rebellious northern Legations. These ...
... rule, the two areas had been joined together in a single government.” When papal rule was restored in 1814 at the end of the Napoleonic wars, the Church had tried to impose tighter control over the rebellious northern Legations. These ...
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... papal rule. They ripped the papal insignia from atop the door of the government palace and hoisted in its place an Italian national tricolor. Amidst the revolutionary fervor, papal troops fled the city, and a provisional government was ...
... papal rule. They ripped the papal insignia from atop the door of the government palace and hoisted in its place an Italian national tricolor. Amidst the revolutionary fervor, papal troops fled the city, and a provisional government was ...
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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