The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara Kertzer David I.Paperback
Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg.A National Book Award FinalistThe extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring…
Specifikacia The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara Kertzer David I.Paperback
Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg.A National Book Award FinalistThe 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
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