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Street of Via S. Maria del Pianto Jewish Quarter by night looking towards Via del Portico d`Ottavia in Rome, Italy. `The Roman Ghetto` was established in 1555. With the exception of brief periods under Napoleon from 1808 to 1815 and under the Roman Republics of 1798-99 and 1849, the ghetto of Rome was controlled by the papacy until the capture of Rome in 1870.