Editing Pope Pius VIII (section)

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[[File:Pie VIII porté dans la basilique de Saint-Pierre à Rome, by Horace Vernet, 1829.jpg|thumb|right|200px|1829 painting by [[Horace Vernet]] of Pius VIII in the ''[[Sedia gestatoria]]'']]
Pius' brief pontificate saw the [[Catholic Emancipation]] in the United Kingdom and the [[July Revolution]] in France, which occurred in 1829 and 1830, respectively. Pius VIII recognised [[Louis Philippe I]] (1830–48) as French king and allowed him to use the French king's customary title "Roi Très Chrétien", which means "His Most Christian Majesty".<ref name="Papal Profile: Pope Pius VIII">{{cite web |url = http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2012/06/papal-profile-pope-pius-viii.html |title = Papal Profile: Pope Pius VIII |date=4 June 2012 |website=The Mad Monarchist |access-date = 20 February 2016}}</ref>

Also of remarkable importance to the future is a letter of his to a French bishop, in which he allowed the taking of moderate [[interest]] (under the principle of foregoing a profit by investing the lent capital; see ''[[Vix pervenit]]'' for the discussion of the topic).<!-- I had been thinking that this can be found in Ferdinand Elger, Lehrbuch der katholischen Moraltheologie. What ''can'' be found in Elger is that an answer to a dubium, by the Penitentiary, not the Pope in person, was issued in the reign of Pope Pius VIII, and later a statement of Pope Gregory XVI. It still seems the letter of Pope Pius VIII to a French bishop which made the Holy See's stand clear, with the latter concurring, but I cannot at the moment find it. !-->

Being, at that time, head of the Papal States, he remained popular for decades for removing the so-called ''cancelletti'' (grids) from the taverns, which Leo XII had ordered to be put there to hinder the consumption of wine unless accompanied by a meal. A poem was written about him that ran thus:{{quote|"Allor che il sommo Pio / comparve innanzi a Dio / gli domandò: Che hai fatto? / Rispose: Nient'ho fatto. / Corresser gli angeletti: / Levò i cancelletti."}}which in English roughly reads: At the time when the highest Pius / approached God in the highest / He asked him: What have you got done? / He answered: "There's nothing I've got done." / But the angels present knew better: / "He cancelled the cancelletter".<ref>As represented in one of the books of the ''Concerto Romano'' cycle. <!-- The ''Concerto Romano'' cycle consists of the books "Concerto romano", "Fantasia romana", "Sinfonia vaticana", "Cantanta romana". The quote is ''probably'' in the first of these; pagenumber to follow. Here in the comment, it may be allowed to acknowledge the source where the writer of these lines refreshed his memory about the poem, which is a blog called "Riciclaggio della memoria". !--></ref>