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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... religion. The world was as God had ordained it. Progress was heresy. But while the pontifical state still stood in 1858, it had not survived the previous seven decades unbattered. When French soldiers streamed down the Italian peninsula ...
... religion. The world was as God had ordained it. Progress was heresy. But while the pontifical state still stood in 1858, it had not survived the previous seven decades unbattered. When French soldiers streamed down the Italian peninsula ...
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... religious purification and morality, a friend of the Inquisition, and a steadfast warrior in the battle to protect the Pope's position as a temporal ruler. The previous night, when the Mortara family and their friends in Bologna's tiny ...
... religious purification and morality, a friend of the Inquisition, and a steadfast warrior in the battle to protect the Pope's position as a temporal ruler. The previous night, when the Mortara family and their friends in Bologna's tiny ...
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... religious institutions familiar to Momolo and Marianna in Reggio and Modena would not be found in Bologna. But the Mortara family would not be alone in their new home. It was a family decision. Around the same time that Momolo and ...
... religious institutions familiar to Momolo and Marianna in Reggio and Modena would not be found in Bologna. But the Mortara family would not be alone in their new home. It was a family decision. Around the same time that Momolo and ...
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... time-honored Church credo on the Jews, he denied, first of all, that Jews had any rights of citizenship. He dismissed Judaism as a vicious religion, and Jews as a people condemned by God to wander Jews in the Land of the Popes 19.
... time-honored Church credo on the Jews, he denied, first of all, that Jews had any rights of citizenship. He dismissed Judaism as a vicious religion, and Jews as a people condemned by God to wander Jews in the Land of the Popes 19.
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... religion marked by an implacable hatred of Christians, are called upon to treat them with all manner of trickery, of treachery, and of torture, and to work tirelessly to reduce Christians to perpetual slavery. 4. That the restrictions ...
... religion marked by an implacable hatred of Christians, are called upon to treat them with all manner of trickery, of treachery, and of torture, and to work tirelessly to reduce Christians to perpetual slavery. 4. That the restrictions ...
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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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