18th century
Edict of Pius VI on the Jews
5 avril 1775·Rome
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forty-four articles restoring the prohibitions of the ghetto, forced sermons and prohibition of gravestones
The edict published by Pius VI at the beginning of his pontificate gathered and tightened all the prohibitions bearing upon the Jews of Rome and the Papal States. It forbade them from spending the night outside the ghetto, from possessing books not cleared by censorship, from employing Christian wet nurses, from erecting stones on their graves, and compelled them to attend compulsory Saturday sermons.
The text appeared at the very moment when the Austria of Joseph II and the France of the Enlightenment were beginning to loosen the vice. The ghetto of Rome, the last in Western Europe, would not be definitively opened until the entry of Italian troops into the city, nearly a century later.
- Period :
- 18th century
- Type :
- Persecution
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Italie
*Editto sopra gli ebrei*, Rome ; Attilio Milano, *Il ghetto di Roma* ; Kenneth Stow, *Catholic Thought and Papal Jewry Policy*.