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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... Momolo explained: “As the day passed, amidst anxiety and fear, seeing my wife in a deplorable state, indeed driven almost insane, I decided it was best if she were taken from the house so that she wouldn't be made to see the separation ...
... Momolo explained: “As the day passed, amidst anxiety and fear, seeing my wife in a deplorable state, indeed driven almost insane, I decided it was best if she were taken from the house so that she wouldn't be made to see the separation ...
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... Momolo had one last hope: the Inquisitor. Only he could call a halt to the looming disaster. Accompanied by Marianna's brother Angelo, Mortara set out for San Domenico. At five o'clock, the two men arrived at the convent and were ...
... Momolo had one last hope: the Inquisitor. Only he could call a halt to the looming disaster. Accompanied by Marianna's brother Angelo, Mortara set out for San Domenico. At five o'clock, the two men arrived at the convent and were ...
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... Mortara's family came. In 1858, Bologna, unofficial capital of the pontifical state's northern territories, known as the Legations, was ruled by Pope Pius IX. Modena and Reggio lay in the domain of Duke Francesco V.3 Momolo Mortara was ...
... Mortara's family came. In 1858, Bologna, unofficial capital of the pontifical state's northern territories, known as the Legations, was ruled by Pope Pius IX. Modena and Reggio lay in the domain of Duke Francesco V.3 Momolo Mortara was ...
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... 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 likewise moved. When it was time for Momolo to marry, in 1843, his bride, Marianna Padovani, from a ...
... 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 likewise moved. When it was time for Momolo to marry, in 1843, his bride, Marianna Padovani, from a ...
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... 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 Marianna arrived with their children ...
... 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 Marianna arrived with their children ...
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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