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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... Christian was forbidden by the state as well. A woman moved to her husband's home upon marriage. Momolo's grandfather married a woman from Mantua, who moved to Reggio in 1789; his father married a woman from Verona in 1815, and she ...
... Christian was forbidden by the state as well. A woman moved to her husband's home upon marriage. Momolo's grandfather married a woman from Mantua, who moved to Reggio in 1789; his father married a woman from Verona in 1815, and she ...
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... Christian peoples did not. Yet they also bore a special guilt, for they were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus. While the Jews were once God's favored people on earth, they had become God's enemies. Their temples in Palestine had ...
... Christian peoples did not. Yet they also bore a special guilt, for they were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus. While the Jews were once God's favored people on earth, they had become God's enemies. Their temples in Palestine had ...
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... Christians in the intestate inheritance of a Christian relative. 3. That the Jews themselves, in order to fulfill the nefarious requirements set down by a religion marked by an implacable hatred of Christians, are called upon to treat ...
... Christians in the intestate inheritance of a Christian relative. 3. That the Jews themselves, in order to fulfill the nefarious requirements set down by a religion marked by an implacable hatred of Christians, are called upon to treat ...
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... Christ through baptism. He made no mention of the case near to home, although by the time this letter appeared, the controversy over Edgardo Mortara's baptism and kidnapping was creating a great uproar. The baptismal program outlined by ...
... Christ through baptism. He made no mention of the case near to home, although by the time this letter appeared, the controversy over Edgardo Mortara's baptism and kidnapping was creating a great uproar. The baptismal program outlined by ...
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... Christianity in those lands in which today reigns an idolatry both sacrilegious and stupid. ... Oh, what a blessing God will bestow on our families whose contributions will have sent Angels to Heaven!” The Archbishop made his own modest ...
... Christianity in those lands in which today reigns an idolatry both sacrilegious and stupid. ... Oh, what a blessing God will bestow on our families whose contributions will have sent Angels to Heaven!” The Archbishop made his own modest ...
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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