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By (author) David I. Kertzer

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Now filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Mark Rylance as the Pope. The extraordinary story of how the Vaticanâ€™s imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy helped to bring about the collapse of the popesâ€™ 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 burst inside and seize Mortaraâ€™s six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his fatherâ€™s arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly `baptizedâ€™ 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 boyâ€™s kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchantâ€™s family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and outside leaders like Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a thriller and an authoritative account of a moment that changed Europe forever.

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