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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara( )
Author: Kertzer, David I.
ISBN:978-0-679-76817-3
Publication Date:Jun 1998
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Vintage
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $17.95
Book Description:

Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg.  A National Book Award Finalist The 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. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old...
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Author Biography
Kertzer, David I. (Author)
He is a professor anthropology & history at Brown University. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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