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Mistress of the Vatican
There it was again, the sound of the bolt grinding shut behind her.
She would never forgive Camillo for that. She would make him pay for
that.
Seeing Camillo’s uselessness, Olimpia’s son-in-law Niccolò Ludovisi
hoped to be assigned high-level political offices. After all, it was the only
reason he had married Costanza at such a bargain-basement dowry.
Gregorio Leti asserted, “This Prince had enclin’d to this match, out of
an opinion of making great advantages by it, as seeing at the time that
Cardinal Camillo was made Cardinal, and altogether unfit for business,
so that he flattered himself with an opinion of being the only Nephew
and governing the Pope and Church.” 10
But Olimpia wanted all the power herself and was certainly not going
to let the fat prince acquire any at her expense. Luckily for her, the
pope didn’t like him anyway. Innocent “had no great tenderness for
him,” the French ambassador reported. 11 Sometimes Prince Ludovisi
had to fight even to obtain an audience with the pope. When he did see
the pontiff, Innocent “had no other conversation than topics of drollery
and never entered into anything of importance. And if he initiated
some discourse, the pope always interrupted him with gossip and foolishness
which seemed to the poor prince that the pope wanted him to
serve as a court jester rather than as a nephew.” 12
When he complained to his mother-in-law about the lack of honors
and offices that were his due as pope’s nephew, “Donna Olimpia answered
him in a haughty manner, that it was honor enough for him
that he had been preferred to marry her Daughter over so many competitors
of as great a quality as himself. Whereupon the Prince, being
unwilling to come to a rupture with one who had so great an influence
upon the Pope, would hold his tongue and be quiet.” 13
The prince vented his rage by telling anyone who would listen that
he would never have debased himself by marrying the daughter of a
cheapskate nobody like Olimpia if he had known he wouldn’t be getting
any Vatican power in return. Word got around Rome, and we can
only imagine how Costanza felt.
On May 4, 1645, at Olimpia’s suggestion, the pope appointed Prince
Ludovisi commander-in-chief of the fleet sent to aid Venice in defending
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