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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... 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 home too ...
... 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 home too ...
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... building with him, and saw at midstairs a policeman who was coming down with a boy in his arms, and just behind him, out cold and lying across the stairs, the Jew Mortara.... We rushed to help him, and carried him into his home, where ...
... building with him, and saw at midstairs a policeman who was coming down with a boy in his arms, and just behind him, out cold and lying across the stairs, the Jew Mortara.... We rushed to help him, and carried him into his home, where ...
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... home of Europe's oldest university—whose thousands of students from throughout the continent were hiring their own professors and running the school until the clerics took charge—Bologna, and not Rome, was the site Charles V chose for ...
... home of Europe's oldest university—whose thousands of students from throughout the continent were hiring their own professors and running the school until the clerics took charge—Bologna, and not Rome, was the site Charles V chose for ...
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... home of Italy's most thriving Jewish communities, now had no Jews at all. Fortunately for Bologna's dispossessed Jews, just to the northeast and northwest of Bologna lay Ferrara and Modena respectively, lands still under the control of ...
... home of Italy's most thriving Jewish communities, now had no Jews at all. Fortunately for Bologna's dispossessed Jews, just to the northeast and northwest of Bologna lay Ferrara and Modena respectively, lands still under the control of ...
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... home. Their marriage was blessed with many children. By the time their fourth child, Augusto, was born, in 1848, the house was getting crowded. In addition to Momolo, Marianna, and their children, it included Momolo's father and mother ...
... home. Their marriage was blessed with many children. By the time their fourth child, Augusto, was born, in 1848, the house was getting crowded. In addition to Momolo, Marianna, and their children, it included Momolo's father and mother ...
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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