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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... months before, were already asleep. Marianna, a nervous sort anyway, wished that her husband were home. A few minutes later, she heard sounds of feet climbing the back stairs, which could be reached through her neighbor's apartment ...
... months before, were already asleep. Marianna, a nervous sort anyway, wished that her husband were home. A few minutes later, she heard sounds of feet climbing the back stairs, which could be reached through her neighbor's apartment ...
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... months earlier, having at age 41 been simultaneously named a cardinal and appointed legate to the province of Bologna. Arriving to take up his new duties in Bologna on the evening of April 30, 1858, he was met with due ceremony as he ...
... months earlier, having at age 41 been simultaneously named a cardinal and appointed legate to the province of Bologna. Arriving to take up his new duties in Bologna on the evening of April 30, 1858, he was met with due ceremony as he ...
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... month after Augusto's birth, Moses and Ricca had their first child, Momolo and Marianna must have felt not only that their living quarters were tight, but that the store which provided all of them with their living could no longer do so ...
... month after Augusto's birth, Moses and Ricca had their first child, Momolo and Marianna must have felt not only that their living quarters were tight, but that the store which provided all of them with their living could no longer do so ...
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... month that the Mortaras' son Augusto was born, the Duke of Modena, Francesco V, fled his capital, alarmed by reports that insurrectionary forces from throughout his dukedom were marching on Modena, together with hundreds of armed rebels ...
... month that the Mortaras' son Augusto was born, the Duke of Modena, Francesco V, fled his capital, alarmed by reports that insurrectionary forces from throughout his dukedom were marching on Modena, together with hundreds of armed rebels ...
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... month a revolution in Berlin led to the granting of a constitution and the installation of a liberal government in Prussia. Most important of all for Italy—most of which came under Austrian influence in one way or another— a revolt in ...
... month a revolution in Berlin led to the granting of a constitution and the installation of a liberal government in Prussia. Most important of all for Italy—most of which came under Austrian influence in one way or another— a revolt in ...
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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