The kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

di David I. Kertzer

1997 · 350 pagine · Alfred Knopf · ISBN 9780679768173

Trama

Discusses the cause célèbre of Edgardo Mortara, who in 1858, at the age of six, was taken by force from his Jewish home in Bologna by the pontifical police on the grounds that he had been baptized as an infant by a family servant. Despite the efforts of his family, Jews in Italy and abroad, and foreign ambassadors and rulers, he was never returned to his family.

Generi: Storia, Biografie

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