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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... Viale-Prela was charged with working closely with the Dominican inquisitor, Father Pier Gaetano Feletti, to introduce more effective surveillance of the population. The Cardinal issued large manifestos, which were attached to the doors ...
... Viale-Prela was charged with working closely with the Dominican inquisitor, Father Pier Gaetano Feletti, to introduce more effective surveillance of the population. The Cardinal issued large manifestos, which were attached to the doors ...
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... Viale-Prela instructed all parishes to participate. The letter alerted his flock to the barbarous custom in China of abandoning babies, a practice found all too frequently among the world's nonChristians. “This execrable custom is so ...
... Viale-Prela instructed all parishes to participate. The letter alerted his flock to the barbarous custom in China of abandoning babies, a practice found all too frequently among the world's nonChristians. “This execrable custom is so ...
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... Viale-Prela's reputation among his critics for excessive attachment to the Jesuits was reinforced by his heavy reliance on the order for this campaign, inaugurated in April 1857. The Jesuits began their work of proselytizing and ...
... Viale-Prela's reputation among his critics for excessive attachment to the Jesuits was reinforced by his heavy reliance on the order for this campaign, inaugurated in April 1857. The Jesuits began their work of proselytizing and ...
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... Viale-Prela extended his arm to help the Pontiff out. Together they entered the church, where fourteen bishops greeted them. Just what impression the Pope's arrival made on the people of Bologna is difficult to say. The many ...
... Viale-Prela extended his arm to help the Pontiff out. Together they entered the church, where fourteen bishops greeted them. Just what impression the Pope's arrival made on the people of Bologna is difficult to say. The many ...
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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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