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Mistress of the Vatican
While the bride and groom had assembled a group of illustrious
guests, the two most important relatives were conspicuous for their absence.
Olimpia, however, did have the good taste to send the bride a nice
pair of earrings. An avvisi records that on that same day, a Sunday, the
pope went to visit the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, as if
making a public gesture that his health was good enough for a short
journey, and he could have attended the wedding had he so chosen.
Teodoro Amayden expressed his shock that the couple did not return
to Rome to kiss the pope’s feet. “I know that His Holiness tenderly loves
his nephew, but seeing that Signora Donna Olimpia did not have satisfaction
with this marriage, and believing that between the mother-inlaw
and daughter-in-law there would be great disgust, he prudently
wanted to prevent the gossip of the common people. . . . The pope is
upset with his nephew who wanted more than anything in the world to
become a cardinal and then, to the pope’s disgust, tossed aside the
hat.” 13
The princess of Rossano and Camillo honeymooned in the sumptuous
Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati, thirteen miles outside Rome. Once
the wedding festivities had ended and the scandal and romance had
died down, the bride was suddenly struck by the fact that she could not
return to her beloved Rome, the center of power and politics. Because of
her nasty mother-in-law, the magnificent princess of Rossano was stuck
in the country mud.
Prodded by his wife’s nonstop needling to get the exile lifted, Camillo
secretly went to Rome in a plain carriage to ask his cardinal
friends to intervene on his behalf with the pope. But when Cardinals
Panciroli, Federico Sforza, and many others broached the delicate subject,
according to Amayden, the pope abruptly interrupted and said
“that they should not speak to him about it and should mind their own
business.” 14
Back in the country, while the princess of Rossano connived and
manipulated at getting the exile lifted, Camillo made plans for his Bel
Respiro villa. The exterior had been completed in the fall of 1646, and
now he was eager to decorate the interior with stucco reliefs and frescoes
of mythological heroes and ancient Roman emperors. Though the
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