Bioprocessing and Biotechnology, Turner Edgardo

Автор: Vega Yunque, Edgardo
Название: Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle
ISBN: 0060846801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060846800
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 11140.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Irrepressibly exuberant and wildly imaginative, critically acclaimed author Edgardo Vega Yunqu?‘s third novel is a hilarious picaresque tale set in New York’s Lower East Side, that stretches our preceptions of life, love, and politics in the United States.

Автор: Kertzer, David I.
Название: The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
ISBN: 0679768173 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679768173
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 11010.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg.

A National Book Award Finalist

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, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized" by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed.
With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a historical thriller and an authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history.