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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

David I. Kertzer

368 pages first pub 1997 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history religion tense slow-paced
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National Book Award FinalistBologna: 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 son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his...

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