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Kidnapped by the Vatican? The Unpublished Memoirs of Edgardo Mortara Ed. by Vittorio Messori, Trans. by Michael J. Miller, Ignatius, 2017, 175 pp., ISBN 978-1-62164-198-8, $17.95 (paper).
The memoirs here featured- The Mortara Child and Pius IX. The Autobiographical Account of the 'Mortara Case' Written by the Protagonist, Reverend Father Pio Maria Mortara, CRI-were penned in Spanish in 1888. The author (né Edgardo Levi Mortara) approved Andrea Vannicelli's translation into Italian, but the text remained unpublished until 2005, when Vittorio Messori added his...