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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... Bologna became clear. The young couple knew a number of Jewish families, including Marianna's wealthy Modena neighbors the Sanguinettis, who had recently moved to Bologna. Much larger than either Reggio or Modena, and a much more ...
... Bologna became clear. The young couple knew a number of Jewish families, including Marianna's wealthy Modena neighbors the Sanguinettis, who had recently moved to Bologna. Much larger than either Reggio or Modena, and a much more ...
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... 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, Marianna's parents, her uncle, and her married brother and sister ...
... 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, Marianna's parents, her uncle, and her married brother and sister ...
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... Bologna across to Ravenna and Ferrara—the Pope appointed Agostino Cardinal Rivarola as his legato straordinario. The Cardinal was to have unlimited powers, and he quickly acquired a reputation for brutality and repression. In 1825 ...
... Bologna across to Ravenna and Ferrara—the Pope appointed Agostino Cardinal Rivarola as his legato straordinario. The Cardinal was to have unlimited powers, and he quickly acquired a reputation for brutality and repression. In 1825 ...
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... Bologna and to the discriminatory laws directed against the Jews in the Papal States, published his own views in 1827, in the form of a brief on a thorny legal question that had recently come up. Giuseppe Levi, a converted Jew, had died ...
... Bologna and to the discriminatory laws directed against the Jews in the Papal States, published his own views in 1827, in the form of a brief on a thorny legal question that had recently come up. Giuseppe Levi, a converted Jew, had died ...
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... Bologna. The Austrian soldiers who retook Bologna remained in the city for another half-dozen years to ensure that there would be no further challenge to the rule of the Cardinal Legate. But barely a decade after their departure, Bologna ...
... Bologna. The Austrian soldiers who retook Bologna remained in the city for another half-dozen years to ensure that there would be no further challenge to the rule of the Cardinal Legate. But barely a decade after their departure, Bologna ...
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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