The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, painting byMoritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1862. This representation departs significantly from the historical record of how Mortara was taken – no clergy were present, for example.
TheMortara case (Italian:caso Mortara) was an Italiancause célèbre that captured the attention of much of Europe and North America in the 1850s and 1860s. It concerned thePapal States' seizure of a six-year-old boy namedEdgardo Mortara from hisJewish family inBologna, on the basis of a former servant's testimony that she had administered anemergency baptism to the boy when he fell ill as an infant. Mortara grew up as aCatholic under the protection ofPope Pius IX, who refused his parents' desperate pleas for his return. Mortara eventually became a priest. The domestic and international outrage against the Papal State's actions contributed to its downfall amid theunification of Italy.
In late 1857, Bologna'sinquisitor, Father Pier Feletti, heard that Anna Morisi, who had worked in the Mortara house for six years, had secretly baptised Edgardo when she had thought he was about to die as a baby. TheSupreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition held the view that the action irrevocably made the child a Catholic and, because the law of the Papal States forbade the raising of Christians by members of other faiths, it ordered that he be taken from his family and brought up by the Church.Police went to the Mortara home late on 23 June 1858, and took custody of Edgardo the following evening. (Full article...)
...that in 2002, hundreds of former mobsters incarcerated in eightjails acrossItaly, supposedly having no way to contact one another, joined ahunger strike to protest againstarticle 41-bis of the Italian Penitentiary Act?
Espresso (/ɛˈsprɛsoʊ/ⓘ,Italian:[eˈsprɛsso]) is a concentrated form ofcoffee produced by forcing hot water under high pressure through finely ground coffee beans. Originating inItaly, espresso has become one of the most popular coffee-brewing methods worldwide. It is characterized by its small serving size, typically 25–30 ml, and its distinctive layers: a dark body topped with a lighter-colored foam called "crema".
Espresso machines use pressure to extract a highly concentrated coffee with a complex flavor profile in a short time, usually 25–30 seconds. The result is a beverage with a higher concentration of suspended and dissolved solids than regulardrip coffee, giving espresso its characteristic body and intensity. While espresso contains more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages, its typical serving size results in less caffeine per serving compared to larger drinks such as drip coffee. (Full article...)
Image 32Alessandro Manzoni is famous for the novelThe Betrothed (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature. He contributed to the nationwide use of the Italian language. (fromCulture of Italy)
Image 44Espresso is a coffee brewed by forcing a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure through finely groundcoffee beans. The termespresso comes from the Italianesprimere, which means 'to express', and refers to the process by which hot water is forced under pressure through ground coffee. (fromCulture of Italy)
Image 45Linguistic map of theItalian language throughout the world
Image 78TheRoman Empire provided an inspiration for the medieval European. Although theHoly Roman Empire rarely acquired a serious geopolitical reality, it possessed great symbolic significance. (fromCulture of Italy)
Image 79TheAzzurri in 2012. Football is the most popular sport in Italy. (fromCulture of Italy)
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