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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... returned to the Holy City in 1814 and the 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 ...
... returned to the Holy City in 1814 and the 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 ...
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... returned to the apartment to report the unsettling encounter to her employer, Marianna Mortara. Marianna sat at the living room table, busily stitching, along with her twin 11-year-old daughters, Ernesta and Erminia. Her five younger ...
... returned to the apartment to report the unsettling encounter to her employer, Marianna Mortara. Marianna sat at the living room table, busily stitching, along with her twin 11-year-old daughters, Ernesta and Erminia. Her five younger ...
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... returned home, he realized that time had run out on him. The house had emptied. Marianna and baby Imelda had been taken to the Vitta home; the rest of the children were with their aunt. Other relatives and friends had found the Mortara ...
... returned home, he realized that time had run out on him. The house had emptied. Marianna and baby Imelda had been taken to the Vitta home; the rest of the children were with their aunt. Other relatives and friends had found the Mortara ...
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... returned to power, he put most of the old discriminatory regulations back into effect. Under these laws, Jews could not spend the night outside the ghetto or own stores outside its walls. Christians were forbidden to venture into the ...
... returned to power, he put most of the old discriminatory regulations back into effect. Under these laws, Jews could not spend the night outside the ghetto or own stores outside its walls. Christians were forbidden to venture into the ...
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... returning, the Mortaras made their move from Reggio to a home in the center of Bologna. Although they followed political developments with interest, they were preoccupied with the tasks of caring for their five small children and ...
... returning, the Mortaras made their move from Reggio to a home in the center of Bologna. Although they followed political developments with interest, they were preoccupied with the tasks of caring for their five small children and ...
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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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