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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... Protests Spread 14 The Church Strikes Back 15 A Matter of Principle 16 Sir Moses Goes to Rome 17 Uprising in Bologna ix 23 32 3333 13 42 55 63 74 91 ུ རི ༤ ་ ཚོ ན སྟྲ ིི ཎྜ ིི ིི ིི ིི 102 109 129 143 162 173 18 The Inquisitor's Arrest ...
... Protests Spread 14 The Church Strikes Back 15 A Matter of Principle 16 Sir Moses Goes to Rome 17 Uprising in Bologna ix 23 32 3333 13 42 55 63 74 91 ུ རི ༤ ་ ཚོ ན སྟྲ ིི ཎྜ ིི ིི ིི ིི 102 109 129 143 162 173 18 The Inquisitor's Arrest ...
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... , long an anomaly in Christian Europe . For Bologna's Jews , the result was catastrophic . In 1553 , their Hebrew books , including hundreds of copies of the sacred Talmud , were publicly 13 The International Protests Spread.
... , long an anomaly in Christian Europe . For Bologna's Jews , the result was catastrophic . In 1553 , their Hebrew books , including hundreds of copies of the sacred Talmud , were publicly 13 The International Protests Spread.
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... protests against the Mortara abduction, which had spread throughout Europe and beyond. Titled “The Jew of Bologna,” the article dismissed the hundreds of critical stories devoted to the case as a jumble of “fantasy, tall tales ...
... protests against the Mortara abduction, which had spread throughout Europe and beyond. Titled “The Jew of Bologna,” the article dismissed the hundreds of critical stories devoted to the case as a jumble of “fantasy, tall tales ...
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... protesters during the Pope's visit, but Church officials, sensitive to the unfortunate impression this might create, prevailed on him to find a less visible site for his cannons. Pius IX's procession into Bologna the evening of June 9 ...
... protesters during the Pope's visit, but Church officials, sensitive to the unfortunate impression this might create, prevailed on him to find a less visible site for his cannons. Pius IX's procession into Bologna the evening of June 9 ...
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... protest in the towns that lay along the Pope's route, a petition of grievances had been drawn up in Bologna, signed by a hundred of the city's elite. The petitioners' plan to present it to the pontiff during his visit, however, came to ...
... protest in the towns that lay along the Pope's route, a petition of grievances had been drawn up in Bologna, signed by a hundred of the city's elite. The petitioners' plan to present it to the pontiff during his visit, however, came to ...
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