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purgatory and speed him into heaven. Roman gossips, knowing she was
much closer to her brother-in-law than she had ever been to her husband,
said she put on these elaborate Masses and wore widow’s weeds
only for show, or perhaps to ease her guilt over having been unfaithful
to him with his brother.
The most salacious rumor was that Olimpia had actually poisoned
the old fellow who had been a stumbling block in her love affair with
Gianbattista. After all, her first husband had died suddenly at the age of
twenty-three, and she had inherited all his money. But it is unlikely that
Olimpia had poisoned Pamphilio, if only for the fact that she had been
married to him, and very close to Gianbattista, for twenty-seven years
by the time her husband died. If she was up to poisoning Pamphilio so
she could roll around in bed with her brother-in-law more freely, she
would have dusted off her arsenic decades earlier. Moreover, an autopsy
proved that a shockingly large kidney stone had done him in.
Whatever Olimpia’s feelings about Pamphilio’s death, Cardinal Pamphili
was devastated. Two days later he wrote to a friend in Spain:
To the duke of Candia in Madrid.
I am obliged to your Excellency to inform you of the news of
my family . . . , having lost the illustrious Pamphilio, my only
brother, and head of this family at the age of 76, to my infinite
grief, after a very painful illness of the stone, which turned out to
have weighed six ounces, and was without remedy.
May it please the Lord God to keep him in glory, as I hope, for
the resignation he always demonstrated to the divine will. I trust
that Your Excellency will also be grieved, knowing what humanity
has always accompanied your every sentiment. He has left an
only son, my nephew Camillo, who will always recognize fully
his obligations to serve Your Excellency. And so I kiss your
hands, and pray for the prosperity of Your Excellency.
August 31, 1639 Rome.” 6
With the passing of a family member, Olimpia’s maestro di casa would
have hastened to the Jewish secondhand dealers to purchase a deluge of
black bunting in which to drape the public rooms of the house, those
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