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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... told them what she prayed they did not know: they were at the backdoor of the same apartment they had visited just a few minutes before. “It doesn't matter, Signora. We are police and we want to come in. Don't worry; we wish you no harm ...
... told them what she prayed they did not know: they were at the backdoor of the same apartment they had visited just a few minutes before. “It doesn't matter, Signora. We are police and we want to come in. Don't worry; we wish you no harm ...
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... told her he needed to get certain clarifications about her family and asked her to list the names of everyone in the household, beginning with her husband and herself, and proceeding through all her children, from oldest to youngest ...
... told her he needed to get certain clarifications about her family and asked her to list the names of everyone in the household, beginning with her husband and herself, and proceeding through all her children, from oldest to youngest ...
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... told the servant what was happening. Sanguinetti described his first reactions when his servant woke him up: “I went to the window and saw five or six carabinieri walking about under the portico, and at first I was a little confused ...
... told the servant what was happening. Sanguinetti described his first reactions when his servant woke him up: “I went to the window and saw five or six carabinieri walking about under the portico, and at first I was a little confused ...
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... told that His Eminence was not in Bologna. There was little they could do but try to find the one other person they believed could help them: Bologna's archbishop, the redoubtable Michele Viale-Prela. Once again, they did not have far ...
... told that His Eminence was not in Bologna. There was little they could do but try to find the one other person they believed could help them: Bologna's archbishop, the redoubtable Michele Viale-Prela. Once again, they did not have far ...
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... told that the Archbishop was on a trip outside Bologna and would not be available that day. The priest with whom they spoke, upon hearing what lay behind their pressing request to see the Archbishop, threw up his hands and told them he ...
... told that the Archbishop was on a trip outside Bologna and would not be available that day. The priest with whom they spoke, upon hearing what lay behind their pressing request to see the Archbishop, threw up his hands and told them he ...
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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