The kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara: The Extraordinary Story of How a Jewish Child, Made a Prisoner of the Vatican in 1858, Ended the Rule of the Popes in Italy
History, Biography, European history, True crime, Judaism, Christianity
Human-narrated audio
Summary
An account of the 1858 abduction of a six-year-old Jewish boy in Bologna by Papal authorities. The boy had been secretly baptized by a servant girl, and church dogma dictated that he be raised as a Catholic. The author asserts… that the resulting furor hastened the collapse of the Vatican's temporal power in Italy. Strong language
Title Details
ISBN
9780679450313
Publisher
Alfred Knopf Inc.
Copyright Date
1997
Book number
4886430
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Frank Coffee
Duration
15 hours 19 minutes 53 seconds
Audio producer
NLS