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Eleanor Herman
the Conservators, in a huge hall frescoed with scenes of ancient Roman
legend. As the papal procession moved on, the ladies turned from the
windows. It was time for Olimpia’s banquet to begin. And now, thirtytwo
years after she had come to Rome and been snubbed by the noblewomen,
it was time for a buffet of revenge, served very cold, which was
all that some of her guests would eat that day.
According to Giacinto Gigli, “When it was time to eat, she called
eight of them, and led them with her to eat, and the others remained
mortified at the windows without being invited.” 12 Evidently, the eight
that Olimpia invited had been kind to her from the beginning. The
other seventeen had offended her. It was payback time. And she must
have been absolutely delighted.
The pope’s procession descended Capitoline Hill and marched past
the ancient heart of Rome, the Forum, where cows grazed among the
tops of arches and columns that stuck out like blackened bones from the
dirt of a millennium. Along the route wooden posts had been erected
and ropes strung between them. From these ropes hung posters specially
painted for the ceremony by noble families, expatriate communities,
and various charitable organizations.
As the cortège veered around the Colosseum, the pope saw that the
Jewish community of Rome had hung sixty huge posters featuring
beautiful paintings of Old Testament scenes inscribed with Bible quotes
in Hebrew and Latin. At the end of the posters Innocent halted, and
the chief rabbi handed him a magnificent jeweled Torah, imploring the
new pontiff to be merciful to the Jews of Rome.
It was a straight shot from the eastern side of the Colosseum to the
fourth-century Lateran basilica. Inside the church, the choir sang, candles
burned, and incense filled the air with heady perfume. Innocent
was seated on a magnificent red porphyry chair with lion legs, one of a
matching pair. Dug out of ruined imperial baths in the eighth century,
the chairs had been instantly recognized for their beauty and value. As
the finest chairs in Rome, they had been drafted for papal coronations
in Saint Peter’s Basilica.
The chairs had an unusual feature—a keyhole-shaped opening in
the seat. Though many thought the pope’s throne had once been used
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