The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara.
New York: Knopf, 1997. xi, 350 pages. 8vo, black cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Near fine in a near fine dust wrapper. The extraordinary story of how the Vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped bring about the collapse of the Popes' worldly power in Italy. More