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Mistress of the Vatican
Colonna that Urban VIII was dead, thank you very much. Her chair
would be several inches behind Olimpia’s.
The ambassadors and princes who attended the coronation were impressed
by Olimpia’s appearance. The new power behind the papal
throne was a stately widow renowned for her intelligence and financial
acumen. Diplomatic dispatches posted that day described the “prudence
and valor” of Donna Olimpia. She would certainly be a tremendous asset
to the pope, playing his hostess as first lady of Rome. 3
After the ceremony, the pope was carried to the loggia of benediction
to be crowned in front of the crowd in Saint Peter’s Square, most of
whom had camped out overnight to get a good spot. Cardinal Francesco
Barberini removed Innocent’s jeweled miter, and Cardinal Carlo
de’ Medici, whose gouty toe was healing, placed the shining triple crown
on the pope’s head.
The papal tiara was unique among the crowns of European monarchs.
Until the late eleventh century the pope wore a simple white cap.
But as the papacy increased in power and majesty, so did popes’ hats,
which rose like overyeasted loaves. Originally the high hat had two bejeweled
circles—the tiaras of the temporal and spiritual realms. But by
1300 the power-hungry Boniface VIII had enlarged his crown to resemble
an enormous pointed dunce cap with three jeweled tiaras—the
triple crown. It was said that the three crowns stood for the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit, though no one really knew. By Innocent’s time the triple
tiara was lower, and wider, shaped something like a potato.
At his coronation each pope was expected to choose a motto for his
reign. Innocent selected an invocation to God: “Give to your servant a
docile heart to judge your people.” 4 Many snickered that the pope’s
heart was already docile enough, at least where his sister-in-law was
concerned.
As the sun set, Innocent prepared a new delight for the people of
Rome. Vatican servants with mountain-climbing experience tied ropes
around their waists and knotted them on iron hooks along the observation
point at the top of Saint Peter’s dome. Easing down the dome, they
affixed torches in the iron spikes projecting out every few feet, all the
way down the dome, and then down the façade itself. When darkness
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