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Edgardo Levi Mortara, [a] the sixth of eight children born to Salomone "Momolo" Mortara, a Jewish merchant, and his wife Marianna ( née Padovani), was born on 27 August 1851 in Bologna, one of the Papal Legations in the far north of the pontifical state. [7] In 1850, the family had moved from the Duchy of Modena, just west of Bologna. [7]
Father Pio Edgardo Mortara (right) with his mother Marianna, c. 1878–1890. Edgardo Levi Mortara was born on August 27, 1851, in Bologna. A few months after Edgardo’s birth, the Mortara family, who were Jewish, engaged a new servant, Anna “Nina” Morisi, an 18-year-old Catholic. In October 1857, the inquisitor of Bologna, the Dominican ...
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara: The treatment of a young Jewish boy, forcibly raised as a Christian in 19th century Italy, creates a furor which pits the Papacy itself against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
Jun 30, 1998 · 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 son ...
Nov 17, 2023 · "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara" (1862) by the 19th century German Jewish painter Moritz Daniel Oppenheim. Completely unknown to him, 6-year-old Edgardo Mortara had a secret. The boy was born ...
May 18, 2022 · Spielberg’s version would have been based on the book “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara,” by Jewish historian David Kertzer, and was to have starred Mark Rylance, with a screenplay by Tony ...
The tale of the kidnapping of Edgardo Levi Mortara (1851–1940) is not an easy one to sit with; nor was it amenable to ears in the years it came to pass. The boy, Edgardo, you see, was a Jew. Born to Italian Jewish merchants in Bologna, Italy, in the year 1851, Edgardo lived and breathed in a Jewish home. At the time of Edgardo’s childhood ...
