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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

by David I. Kertzer

350 pages · 1997

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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.

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