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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... troops. Fourteen days after Augusto Mortara's birth, Duke Francesco V of Modena fled his duchy. By the end of March, the Austrian troops had been driven from both Milan and Venice, and provisional governments were formed to replace the ...
... troops. Fourteen days after Augusto Mortara's birth, Duke Francesco V of Modena fled his duchy. By the end of March, the Austrian troops had been driven from both Milan and Venice, and provisional governments were formed to replace the ...
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... troops who, in the name of the Pope, soon marched on the city. After an eightday siege in mid-May 1849, the Austrians entered Bologna, restored the papal insignias, prohibited all public gatherings, required all residents to be off the ...
... troops who, in the name of the Pope, soon marched on the city. After an eightday siege in mid-May 1849, the Austrians entered Bologna, restored the papal insignias, prohibited all public gatherings, required all residents to be off the ...
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... troops—who turned some of them into stalls for their horses—early in the century, having endured the revolts that flared up over the ensuing decades, and having weathered opposition from the more intransigent members of the Church ...
... troops—who turned some of them into stalls for their horses—early in the century, having endured the revolts that flared up over the ensuing decades, and having weathered opposition from the more intransigent members of the Church ...
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... troops, the Archbishop's famed friendship with Prince Metternich and the rulers of the Austrian Empire did little to endear him to his new flock.” Michele Viale-Prela was the second of four sons of a wealthy Corsican family of Genoese ...
... troops, the Archbishop's famed friendship with Prince Metternich and the rulers of the Austrian Empire did little to endear him to his new flock.” Michele Viale-Prela was the second of four sons of a wealthy Corsican family of Genoese ...
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... troops, the petitioners argued, prevented the Pope's disgruntled subjects from rising in revolt. The prelates were no longer capable of governing; the territories should be freed from papal rule. At the same conference, Count Camillo di ...
... troops, the petitioners argued, prevented the Pope's disgruntled subjects from rising in revolt. The prelates were no longer capable of governing; the territories should be freed from papal rule. At the same conference, Count Camillo di ...
Contenido
13 | |
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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