by David I. Kertzer · BERFX|#BERENICE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416750214
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«El secuestro de Edgardo Mortara» is the historical essay by David I. Kertzer, published by Berenice in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
The book reconstructs the real case of Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy whom the Vatican separated from his family in Bologna in 1858, after a servant secretly baptized him. The event shook Europe, turned the child into a standard-bearer against the Church's temporal power, and is set against the rise of Italian nationalism, with figures such as Mazzini, Garibaldi, and Pius IX.
David I. Kertzer is a historian and anthropologist, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for The Pope and Mussolini.
Ideal for readers of Italian history, the papacy, and the nineteenth century, and for those seeking real events narrated with thriller pacing.
