Daily life in Papal Rome in the eighteenth century;
1962
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At a time when all Europe was stirred by the philosophical ideas that presaged the revolutions of the late eighteenth century, in Rome under papal rule time seems to have stood still. By night the darkness was complete, for according to the Romans the earth was daily plunged into shadow by natural law and any impious light that violated the shadow was held as sacriligious. To change nothing, to disturb nothing, was the order which everyone from the Pope to the least of his subjects was anxious to enforce. The slightest change could trouble the quietude and sweetness of life, incomparable in a land full of paradox where, according to a contemporary, ‘everyone commands and no one obeys, but things proceed fairly well.’
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