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Mistress <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Vatican<br />

was his ill-concealed passion for Olimpia. Gregorio Leti asserted, “The<br />

good cardinal was an excellent master in <strong>the</strong> art <strong>of</strong> dissimulating everything<br />

perfectly, except for <strong>the</strong> love he had for his sister-in-law. In <strong>the</strong><br />

congregations he appeared gentle, in conversation he was very humble,<br />

and in church he was admirably devout. But with all <strong>of</strong> his skill, it was<br />

impossible for him to hide his affection for Donna Olimpia.<br />

“He loved her,” Leti continued, “he adored her, to tell <strong>the</strong> truth, in<br />

public and in private, and all <strong>the</strong> world was truly astonished that a<br />

Cardinal who had pretensions, although a long shot, to <strong>the</strong> Pontificate,<br />

worked so openly to win <strong>the</strong> good graces <strong>of</strong> a woman, and his<br />

sister-in-law at that.” 18<br />

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