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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... pontifical state itself , a new nation - state was soon to take shape whose boundaries were as yet unknown and whose nature was as yet unimagined . Subjects would soon become citizens . Yet for the mass of illiterate peasants , nothing ...
... pontifical state itself , a new nation - state was soon to take shape whose boundaries were as yet unknown and whose nature was as yet unimagined . Subjects would soon become citizens . Yet for the mass of illiterate peasants , nothing ...
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... pontifical state still stood in 1858 , it had not survived the previous seven decades unbattered . When French soldiers streamed down the Italian peninsula in 1796-97 , the Papal States were gobbled up ; in the years that followed , two ...
... pontifical state still stood in 1858 , it had not survived the previous seven decades unbattered . When French soldiers streamed down the Italian peninsula in 1796-97 , the Papal States were gobbled up ; in the years that followed , two ...
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... Pontifical State . 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 ...
... Pontifical State . 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 ...
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... pontifical state, excepting only the capital of Rome and the Adriatic city of Ancona, where ghettoes would be allowed to remain. The Spanish Bourbon rulers of the Italian south, inspired by Spain's example, had earlier in the century ...
... pontifical state, excepting only the capital of Rome and the Adriatic city of Ancona, where ghettoes would be allowed to remain. The Spanish Bourbon rulers of the Italian south, inspired by Spain's example, had earlier in the century ...
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... pontifical state's northern territories, known as the Legations, was ruled by Pope Pius IX. Modena and 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 ...
... pontifical state's northern territories, known as the Legations, was ruled by Pope Pius IX. Modena and 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 ...
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