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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara David I. Kertzer

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara By David I. Kertzer

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer


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In 1858, a police posse and a Catholic inquisitor invaded the house of a Jewish merchant, Soloman Mortara, in Bologna, and seized his son, Edgardo. With this scene, the author begins his investigation of the kidnapping that would eventually lead to the end of the church's governing power in Italy.

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara Summary

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer

On 23rd June 1858, a police posse and a Catholic inquisitor invaded the house of a Jewish merchant, Soloman Mortara, in Bologna, and seized his six-year-old son, Edgardo. With this scene, David Kertzer begins his investigation of the kidnapping that would eventually lead to the end of the church's governing power in Italy. It transpired that Edgardo has been secretly baptised years earlier by a Catholic servant and the law held that no Christian child could be brought up in a Jewish household. What followed made international history - although such kidnappings had been common this struggle came to symbolize the entire revolutionary campaign of Mazzini and Garibaldi to shake off the dominance of the Catholic church and establish a modern, secular state.

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GOR000884396
9780330348782
0330348787
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer
Used - Good
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
19970822
352
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