The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara Kertzer David I.Paperback
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…
Specifikacia The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara Kertzer David I.Paperback
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. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara.
The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly baptized by a family servant. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses. 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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