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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

Kertzer, David I.

Paperback

General ChristianityGeneral European HistoryItalian History

ISBN10: 0679768173
ISBN13: 9780679768173
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jun 30 1998
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.22 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
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.

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