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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... took her other nieces and nephews back to her home to join her own six children. “I didn't want them to see their mother in such a state any longer,” she said. While Rosina took the children away, the men gathered in the apartment ...
... took her other nieces and nephews back to her home to join her own six children. “I didn't want them to see their mother in such a state any longer,” she said. While Rosina took the children away, the men gathered in the apartment ...
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... took her out, she cried so pitiably, said the family's servant, that it broke the hearts of all who heard her. Indeed, during the short trip to the Vitta home, Marianna's wails were so piercing that, although the carriage was covered ...
... took her out, she cried so pitiably, said the family's servant, that it broke the hearts of all who heard her. Indeed, during the short trip to the Vitta home, Marianna's wails were so piercing that, although the carriage was covered ...
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... took charge—Bologna, and not Rome, was the site Charles V chose for his consecration as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1530. At the time Charles received Pope Clement VII's blessing in the massive San Petronio basilica on the ...
... took charge—Bologna, and not Rome, was the site Charles V chose for his consecration as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1530. At the time Charles received Pope Clement VII's blessing in the massive San Petronio basilica on the ...
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... took a dim view of Vicini's heresy. Both he and the printer who published his defense of the Jews were found guilty and condemned to spend eight days confined in a convent to reflect on their sin.” Three years after this sentence ...
... took a dim view of Vicini's heresy. Both he and the printer who published his defense of the Jews were found guilty and condemned to spend eight days confined in a convent to reflect on their sin.” Three years after this sentence ...
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... took the Pope on a tour of their library. Once one of Italy's foremost book collections, it had been sadly reduced as a result of the Napoleonic depredations. Not only had large portions of it been carried off by the French, but a good ...
... took the Pope on a tour of their library. Once one of Italy's foremost book collections, it had been sadly reduced as a result of the Napoleonic depredations. Not only had large portions of it been carried off by the French, but a good ...
Contenido
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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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