This accounts for the fact that the Ghetto was no richer at the accession of Pius IX.

than it was in the worst days of the Middle Ages.
History has made haste to write in letters of gold all the good deeds of the reigning Pope, and, above all, the enfranchisement of the Jews.
Pius IX.

has removed the gates of the Ghetto.

He allows the Jews to go about by night as well as by day, and to live where they like.

He has exempted them from the municipal kick and the 800 scudi which it cost them.