The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara - Hardcover

Kertzer, David I.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679450319 ISBN 13: 9780679450313

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

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Book by Kertzer David I

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Describes the 1858 kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, the child of a Jewish merchant, by Italian police acting under the orders of the papal Inquisitor, the public outcry that followed, and the impact of the crime on the downfall of papal power in Italy. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

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8: A police posse, acting on the orders of a Catholic inquisitor, invades the home of a Jewish merchant, Momolo Mortara, wrenches his crying six-year-old son from his arms, and rushes him off in a carriage bound for Rome. His mother is so distraught that she collapses and has to be taken to a neighbor's house, but her weeping can be heard across the city. With this terrifying scene--one that would haunt this family forever--David I. Kertzer begins his fascinating investigation of the dramatic kidnapping, and shows how the deep-rooted antisemitism of the Catholic Church would eventually contribute to the collapse of its temporal power in Italy.  As Edgardo's parents desperately search for a way to get their son back, they learn why he--out of all their eight children--was taken. Years earlier, the family's Catholic serving girl, fearful that the infant might die of an illness, had secretly baptized him (or so she claimed). Edgardo recovered, but when the story reached the Bologna Inquisitor,

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679450319
• ISBN 13: 9780679450313
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350