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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]
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 ...
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 ...
Jan 31, 2018 · Holly Taylor Coolman January 31, 2018. Pope Pius IX took Mortara into his personal care, but the family, of course, was torn by anger and grief. The details are as dramatic as any Victorian novel ...
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 ...
