The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.


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Enea Sala
Edgardo Mortara bambino

Leonardo Maltese
Edgardo Mortara ragazzo

Paolo Pierobon
Papa Pio IX

Fausto Russo Alesi
Momolo Mortara

Barbara Ronchi
Marianna Mortara

Andrea Gherpelli
Angelo Padovani

Samuele Teneggi
Riccardo Mortara

Corrado Invernizzi
Giudice Carboni

Filippo Timi
Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli
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