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Mistress of the Vatican
She could afford to be gracious because she had removed every stick
of decent furniture, all the rich draperies and bed hangings, the priceless
portraits and tapestries, and the silverware. It would have taken
countless cartloads to transport her valuables to another location, perhaps
to a neighbor’s house, and she must have sent them off early in the
conclave, just in case.
“Her avarice was so great that she removed and hid the most beautiful
and best furnishings,” Leti informs us. 4 The looters found only mediocre
furniture, which Olimpia had possibly purchased at the weekly
flea market, where Jews sold old rugs, wobbly chairs, and scratched tables.
Carrying these disappointing items out into the Piazza Navona,
the mob murmured, “The whore has cheated us.” 5 Leti wrote, “Since
that time the people—who didn’t find anything good—began to conceive
very bad sentiments for her and to esteem her extremely greedy.” 6
That evening, Olimpia and Camillo called on the pope. Protocol demanded
that the first time a visitor was granted a papal audience, he or
she kneel and kiss the pope’s red velvet slippers embossed with gold
crosses. Olimpia knelt but started to guffaw as she kissed her brotherin-law’s
feet. Innocent, for his part, was so overcome with emotion by
what this woman had done for him that tears slid down his cheeks. He
“received her with an extraordinary demonstration of love and affection.”
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Olimpia then marched through the pope’s rooms as if she were the
mistress of the household. She issued orders to the servants to move the
furniture around. She even plopped down on the pope’s bed to “examine
whether it was well made.” 8
A rush of visitors descended on the Palazzo Pamphili to congratulate
Olimpia. She was now the first lady of Rome, and suddenly they called
her Your Excellency and referred to her as eccellentissima cognata, “the
most excellent sister-in-law.”
“Donna Olimpia received so many visits that it is almost impossible
to believe,” Leti wrote. “One saw a crowd of ambassadors of the
princes, cardinals, and grand noblemen approach her, and all the Roman
ladies of quality. Initially, she gave the most obliging welcome
possible to everyone, showing to each an agreeable face full of joy and
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