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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... month after that, French troops marched into Rome, destroying the last remnants of the republic and sending Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe Mazzini into exile.” Too weak to stand on its own, papal rule in Bologna would now be ensured by ...
... month after that, French troops marched into Rome, destroying the last remnants of the republic and sending Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe Mazzini into exile.” Too weak to stand on its own, papal rule in Bologna would now be ensured by ...
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... months after Edgardo's birth the family acquired a new servant, Anna Morisi, a girl from the nearby rural town of San Giovanni in Persiceto. Anna, who, like all her kin and friends, was illiterate, was 18 years old, although she herself ...
... months after Edgardo's birth the family acquired a new servant, Anna Morisi, a girl from the nearby rural town of San Giovanni in Persiceto. Anna, who, like all her kin and friends, was illiterate, was 18 years old, although she herself ...
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... months after Edgardo was taken, 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 ...
... months after Edgardo was taken, 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 ...
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... months before Marshal Lucidi appeared at the Mortara home. Its first article on the Mortara case did not appear until early October, when the paper expressed its shock over the massive scale of the protests against the Mortara abduction ...
... months before Marshal Lucidi appeared at the Mortara home. Its first article on the Mortara case did not appear until early October, when the paper expressed its shock over the massive scale of the protests against the Mortara abduction ...
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... month before their first child was born there. It was the evening of July 12, 1844. Police appeared at the home of Abram Maroni and his wife, Venturina, and informed them that their 19-month-old daughter, Pamela, had been secretly ...
... month before their first child was born there. It was the evening of July 12, 1844. Police appeared at the home of Abram Maroni and his wife, Venturina, and informed them that their 19-month-old daughter, Pamela, had been secretly ...
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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