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Eleanor Herman
warded when he became pope, making his grandsons cardinals. Pius
IV (reigned 1559–1565) had three bastards, and Gregory XIII (reigned
1572–1585) had one.
As the droves of papal children proved, it wasn’t sex that bothered
the church; it was marriage, with its rights of inheritance of ecclesiastical
property. Mistresses, male lovers, and bastards posed no threat to the
prosperity of the church, as they had no inheritance rights. And so the
word celibacy came to denote lack of marriage, rather than lack of sex.
Morality became a bit twisted when sex without marriage was deemed
a lesser sin than sex within the bonds of holy matrimony, as the Lutherans
were quick to point out.
While most papal mistresses stayed quietly in the background, there
were a few exceptions. The charming Cecile, countess of Turenne, believed
to be the mistress of Pope Clement VI (reigned 1342–1352), evidently
did the same things that Olimpia would do three hundred years
later and received the same criticism. The scintillating countess sold offices,
received bribes for her influence, and paraded around with great
haughtiness.
Clement’s contemporary, the Florentine merchant Giovanni Villani,
wrote of the pope, “When he was an archbishop he did not keep
away from women but lived in the manner of young nobles, nor did
he as pope try to control himself. Noble ladies had the same access
to his chambers as did prelates and, among others, the Countess of
Turenne was so intimate with him that, in large part, he distributed
his favors through her.” 23 When the pope’s confessor warned him that
he must give up women for the good of his eternal soul, Clement reportedly
shrugged and said he had gotten used to women during his
youth and only continued sexual relations now on the advice of his
doctors.
Some 150 years after the countess of Turenne, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia,
who became Pope Alexander VI in 1492, took as his mistress the
voluptuous brunette Giulia Farnese. When the affair began in 1489,
Giulia was a bride of fifteen and Borgia was a fat cardinal of fifty-eight.
Giulia wanted no power or riches for herself but accepted Borgia into
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