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	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David Kertzer
		Despite their pleas to the Inquisitor of Bologna, who had heard the rumor of the Jewish boy's baptism and ordered the child seized, little Edgardo was removed by the police and sent to a Church institution in Rome dedicated to the conversion of the Jews.
		WIn trying to win back Edgardo, the Mortaras did all they could to discredit Anna Morisi's testimony, including gathering salacious sexual material to be used against her.
		Marianna Mortara was often portrayed in the media as totally incapacitated by what had happened to her son.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides_K/kidnapping_of_edgardo_mortara1.asp (1384 words)

	ipedia.com: Edgardo Mortara Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Edgardo Mortara (1851 - 1940) was a six-year-old Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, when he was seized by the Papal authorities in 1858 and taken to be raised as a Catholic.
		The Mortara case served to harden the already prevalent opinion in both Italy and abroad that the rule of the Pope over a large area of central Italy was an anachronism and an affront to human rights in an age of liberalism and rationalism.
		Elena Mortara, a great-great-grandaughter of one of Edgardo's sisters, and a professor of literature in Rome, continues to campaign for an apology from the Vatican for Edgardo's abduction and against the canonisation of Pius IX.
	www.ipedia.com /edgardo_mortara.html (1469 words)

	Theater \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Edgardo was never returned to his parents and in fact became a Catholic priest.
		Indeed, one the play’s theatrical devices is to run crucial scenes in the pope’s account followed by the version of Edgardo’s bereft and infuriated mother, who’s sufficiently unimpressed by Pius’s power and position that she tells him to go to hell and refers to his papal raiment as a " party dress.
		The intertwined stories of Edgardo Mortara, forcibly robbed of his family but imbued with a faith, and Pope Pius IX, his outrageous act and arrogance rooted in true belief, are compelling enough to fuel Edgardo Mine.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/theater/documents/02521168.htm (788 words)

	Guardian \| Holy fathers and suffering sons
		Edgardo was taken from his family in Bologna under the pope's orders, forcibly converted to Catholicism and became a priest.
		When Edgardo Mortara was taken from his family by papal gendarmes in Bologna - then under papal rule - the order came from the inquisitor who declared he was acting on the pope's orders.
		Mortara described one episode many years later: "On March 11 1868, I found myself with my brothers in religion in the basilica of St Gregory when the bells announced the arrival of His Holiness.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3972419-103418,00.html (888 words)

	Blessed Pius IX and Edgardo Mortara - Catholic Way
		Edgardo Mortara was a Jewish boy who lived in Bologna, then in the Pope's civil domain, who had been secretly baptized by a Catholic, Anna Morsi, who was working for the family as a maid.
		Several years later, disturbed in her conscience, she mentioned the matter in confession, and the upshot of it was that in 1858 the civil authorities of the Papal States removed the boy from his family and took him to Rome.
		In the case of Edgardo Mortara, he had received the greatest gift possible to a human being, sanctifying grace, and even his parents did not have the right to prevent him from fulfilling his divine calling.
	www.starwire.com /partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID5339\|CHID476560\|CIID183427,00.html (1124 words)

	ABC Radio National: The Ark 18 April 2004 - The Mortara Affair
		Edgardo Mortara became a symbol of the struggle in Italy between the Papal states and the secular forces of unification and religious liberty.
		According to the church newspapers, the small child Edgardo, no sooner having been taken away from his family, and been sent on to Rome to be under the Pope’s wing, saw the light, demanded to go into churches, and immediately wanted to become a Catholic.
		Rachael Kohn: The Mortara Affair was so important at the time, and as you mentioned it was in papers around the world, there were petitions, and you note that even Garibaldi worked it into one of his novels, but it faded quickly, and there have been no major books on it until yours.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/relig/ark/stories/s1086241.htm (1693 words)

	The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara - David I. Kertzer
		As Edgardo's parents desperately search for a way to get their son back, they learn why he--out of all their eight children--was taken.
		Edgardo recovered, but when the story reached the Bologna Inquisitor, the result was his order for Edgardo to be seized and sent to a special monastery where Jews were converted into good Catholics.
		The fate of this one boy came to symbolize the entirerevolutionary campaign of Mazzini and Garibaldi to end the dominance of the Catholic Church and establish a modern, secular Italian state.
	www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/0679768173/The_Kidnapping_of_Edgardo_Mortara.htm (685 words)

	Commonweal : The Godfather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		And so six-year-old Edgardo, who had easily recovered from his illness, was taken from his parents, Momolo and Marianna Mortara, when their maid finally reported her deed.
		Momolo Mortara, in reality a tower of strength who worked courageously and unstintingly to regain his son, appears in this play as a ditherer, incapable of anything but a couple of laughingly ineffective schemes and cringing flattery of the authorities.
		Edgardo’s conversion and its tenacity would probably be best served by a novelist rather than a playwright, and yet the theater, for all its hunger for color and bustle, can convey purely mental conflict, too, as certain plays from Hamlet to Endgame have shown.
	www.commonwealmagazine.org /print_format.php?id_article=591 (1404 words)

	The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
		Edgardo recovered, but when the story reached the Bologna Inquisitor, the result was his order for Edgardo to be seized and sent to a special monastery where Jews were converted into good Catholics.
		When "Pio Edgardo" was 15 and a celebrity, Pius IX wrote to him, "You are very dear to me, my little son, for I acquired you for Jesus Christ at a high price." The price would be the acceleration of Italian unification and the collapse of the Vatican's political power in Italy.
		In accordance with the law forbidding "Christian" children from being raised by Jews, Edgardo was removed and began his strange odyssey that led from the struggles for Italian unification to the eve of the Holocaust.
	www.davidkertzer.com /en/book/export/html/24 (1491 words)

	Mortara, Edgardo -
		Mortara was the son of a Jewish family in Bologna, Italy.
		Edgardo's name was changed to Pio and he became a Catholic priest.
		After 1870 and the dissolution of the Papal States (and the Mortara Case was a major factor in this) he was given the chance to return to his origins but he refused.
	famous.adoption.com /famous/mortara-edgardo.html (472 words)

	Joss Whedon + Edgardo Mortara
		Pope Pius IX The Edgardo Mortara Kidnapping (1858)
		It was also on this date, June 23, 1858, that 6-year-old Edgardo Mortara was kidnapped from his Jewish parents in Bologna, Italy, by agents of the Inquisition, under the Dominican Father (Pier Gaetano) Feletti.
		The parents, Momolo and Marianna Mortara, later learned that their Christian maid, Anna Morsi, had secretly baptized the boy when he was ill, fearing that he would go to hell if he died a Jew.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0623almanac.htm (718 words)

	Edgardo Mortara: il bimbo fatto rapire dal papa
		Il papa disse di considerare Edgardo come un 'figlio' e lo volle accanto a sé in tributi di riverenza annuali, accompagnati da forme di umiliazione pubblica, che il giovane giustificava come giusta punizione per le sofferenze provocate al papa con il suo caso.
		Edgardo, da parte sua, con il tempo, dopo che per anni fu separato dai suoi, considerò il papa il suo vero e nuovo 'padre'.
		La storia di Edgardo Mortara illustra efficacemente quali immense distorsioni del pensiero logico possa celarsi dietro il concetto che il cattolicesimo ha della "libertà".
	www.cristianesimo.it /mortara.htm (913 words)

	BAM: Knocking on History's Door, Arts and Culture, November/December 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Mortara family had never been in trouble before, but they were Jewish; they had reason to fear the police.
		Kertzer's ability to capture and give voice to Edgardo's grieving parents, their coarse and deceitful servant, an embattled and uncompromising Pope Pius IX, and a turf-sensitive leader of the Jewish community in Rome, among others, makes this obscure chapter of history a compelling and colorful one.
		Records kept by the Mortaras' family doctor revealed that Edgardo's illness at the time of his alleged baptism was in no way life-threatening.
	www.brownalumnimagazine.com /storydetail.cfm?ID=1188 (1119 words)

	Film \| Edgardo Mortara collapses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Edgardo Mortara, which was to have been directed by East is East's Damien O'Donnell, had been in financial trouble, but it was hoped it could still go ahead.
		The film was to have starred Oscar winner Hopkins as Pope Pius IX and was based on a true story.
		Oscar nominee Bardem would have co-starred as the father of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy kidnapped by agents of the Papal inquisition after being baptised by a servant.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4503714-100948,00.html (166 words)

	Legal Tyranny - The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara - Chapter 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Edgardo, now 19, was still at San Pietro in Vincoli.
		When he learned this Italian soldier was his brother, Edgardo made clear he would not leave the church.
		But Edgardo was now a young man who could make decisions for himself.
	www.lawbuzz.com /tyranny/mortara/edgardo.htm (147 words)

	Edgardo Levi-Mortara's Testimony for Beatification of Pius IX - Rome, Italy (ZENIT.org) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The 3 September 2000 beatification of Pope Pius IX was overshadowed in the media by controversies about his life, especially in regards to the saga of Edgardo Mortara.
		Mortara was born to Jewish parents but baptized without their knowledge, and eventually raised under the Pope's auspices.
		All of these details are laid out in the documents annexed to the Process [for the removal of Mortara from his family] held in Bologna in 1859 by Father Gaetano Feletti, who was president of the tribunal of the Holy Inquisition of Bologna, before the annexation of Romagna into the kingdom of Italy.
	www.catholic-forum.com /Saints/pope025501.htm (6039 words)

	On "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara"
		These stories were all published shortly after news of the case reached America and they all expressed the American public's sympathy for the Mortara's and the disgust with the pope for not releasing Edgardo to his family.
		It also allowed the Mortara's to share their story with people that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to appeal to, including those in official positions.
		It also suggests that Edgardo Mortara's kidnapping by the Catholic Church assists in these changes that took place in Italy.
	sws.mnstate.edu /duxsa/edmort.htm (827 words)

	Edgardo Gags Acerca De Edgardo, Un Tipo Al Que Todo Lo Supera. Gags About Edgardo's Life, A Guy Who Every
		Edgardo Alfonzo batting, fielding and pitching major league baseball lifetime statistics for each season and his career, and a list of any post-season awards he has won and his rank on various season.
		The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, DAVID I. KERTZER There is no excuse for what happened to Edgardo, but his was not a solitary or isolated story Born in Bologna as Edgardo Mortara, this monk, as a six-year.
		Author of Popes Against the Jews, and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, Kertzer is a major authority on the history of Vatican-Jewish had secretly baptized him (or so she claimed).
	www.99hosted.com /names18717.html (352 words)

	The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (Vintage) - jewishbookmall.com Info and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The case of young Edgardo Mortara is one.
		The year before, seriously ill, Edgardo had been secretly baptized, by the Mortaras' Catholic servant (or so she claimed); it was against the law for baptized Christians to be raised by Jews, and so, in the eyes of the Church, the kidnapping was only just.
		For his part, young Edgardo became a priest and lived in a Belgian abbey until 1940--just before the invading Germans began to deport and execute all those tainted with Jewish blood.
	www.jewishbookmall.com /shop/asinsearch_0679768173.html (492 words)

	The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara:Kertzer, David I.:0679450319:eCampus.com
		With this terrifying scene - one that would haunt this family forever - David I. Kertzer begins his fascinating investigation of the dramatic kidnapping, and shows how the deep-rooted antisemitism of the Catholic Church would eventually contribute to the collapse of its temporal power in Italy.
		As Edgardo's parents desperately search for a way to get their son back, they learn why he - out of all their eight children - was taken.
		The fate of this one boy came to symbolize the entire revolutionary campaign of Mazzini and Garibaldi to end the dominance of the Catholic Church and establish a modern, secular Italian state.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0679450319 (301 words)

	The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara -- David I. Kertzer
		As Edgardo's parents desperately search for a way to get their son back, they learn why he—out of all their eight children—was taken.
		A riveting story which has been remarkably ignored by modern historians—The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara will prompt intense interest and discussion as it lays bare attitudes of the Catholic Church that would have such enormous consequences in the twentieth century.
		In 1858 the Bologna police knocked on the door of the Mortara family, taking their six-year old son without explanation.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0679768173 (482 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The "liberals" referred to in the text were the forces working for the unification of the Italian states and the dissolution of the Church's temporal power.
		Most of all, it gave me the strength and the courage not to give in to the injunctions and threats of the liberal authorities, who wanted to force me, despite my religious vows, to return to my family, exposed to the danger of perjuring myself or even becoming an apostate.
		However, a few days after that last meeting, the newspapers wrote that young Mortara's father (nicknamed Momolo) was in Rome making attempts in the government to get his son back.
	www.zenit.org /english/archive/documents/Mortara-PioIX.html (6020 words)

	Legal Tyranny - The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara - Chapter 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Edgardo Mortara and his family were living in Bologna.
		When the police came to Edgardo's house on June 23, 1858, Edgardo and several of his siblings were asleep.
		Take Edgardo from his parents and bring him to Rome.
	www.lawbuzz.com /tyranny/mortara/bad_actions.htm (141 words)

	Amazon.com: The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara: Books: David I. Kertzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The case of young Edgardo Mortara is one.
		The year before, seriously ill, Edgardo had been secretly baptized, by the Mortaras' Catholic servant (or so she claimed); it was against the law for baptized Christians to be raised by Jews, and so, in the eyes of the Church, the kidnapping was only just.
		The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara tells the story of the 1858 kidnapping of a six year old Jewish boy secretly baptized while a baby by a Catholic servant in the home.
	www.amazon.com /Kidnapping-Edgardo-Mortara-David-Kertzer/dp/0679768173 (1404 words)

	The Mortara Affair Revisited - By Jonathan Rosenblum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On June 23, 1858, the papal police entered the home of Shlomo Mortara, a Jewish merchant living in Bologna, Italy, and removed the Mortara's six-year-old son Edgardo.
		Six years earlier, a servant girl in the Mortara household, fearing that Edgardo was on the verge of death, had sprinkled water on him.
		Despite a worldwide outcry, by Jews and non-Jews alike, Edgardo Mortara never returned to his parents.
	members.aol.com /LazerA/AmEchad/mortara.html (981 words)

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