{"product_id":"kidnapping-of-edgardo-mortara","title":"Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Mark Rylance as the Pope.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe extraordinary story of how the Vatican’s imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy helped to bring about the collapse of the popes’ worldly power in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition burst inside and seize Mortara’s six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father’s arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly `baptized’ 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy’s kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant’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, \u003ci\u003eThe Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara \u003c\/i\u003ereads as both a thriller and an authoritative account of a moment that changed Europe forever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54224928538968,"sku":"9781509844098","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/kidnapping-of-edgardo-mortara","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}