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called in Olimpia to ask her opinion. She was livid to hear that the cardinal
had spoken to the pope in such a manner, and she yelled at her
brother-in-law for putting up with it.
As Olimpia dejectedly rode home, her carriage had the misfortune to
cross that of Cardinal Pallotta, whose driver stopped to salute the pope’s
sister-in-law out of respect. Olimpia and the cardinal glared at each
other from open windows only a couple feet apart. Then Olimpia
started shrieking that Pallotta and his family were spies and yanked
down her carriage window shade “in his face,” according to Giacinto
Gigli. But worse was to come. Yelling at the pulled-down window
shade, “the Cardinal replied that he was no spy, but that it was certainly
a shame that the government of Rome was in the hands of a whore, and
other such similar injurious words, and they departed. It was publicly
known that Donna Olimpia had slept with her brother-in-law before he
became pope, and people were always talking about this.” 4
It was a very public display of bad temper, a tantrum thrown in front
of dozens of people on the street who must have enjoyed seeing the
pope’s sister-in-law insulting a cardinal who then called her a whore to
her face. Word leaped into the Vatican, and Innocent mulled over his
waning dignity.
There would be more street battles to aggravate the pope. Unfortunately,
the palazzo of the princess of Rossano was only a few blocks
from her mother-in-law’s, and the adversaries were bound to run into
each other. One day Olimpia’s carriage met Camillo’s carriage on the
street. Inside were little Gianbattista and his nurse. Camillo’s coachman
stopped to salute Olimpia, as courtesy demanded, and Olimpia’s coachman
stopped to return the salute. But Olimpia poked her head out of
the window and screamed at her coachman to keep going. Numerous
bystanders witnessed the altercation, and word of Olimpia’s latest public
display of bad temper flew back to the pope.
Innocent called her to the Vatican and chastised her severely. Yes, the
princess had behaved disrespectfully to her mother-in-law, but she had
the excuse of youth on her side. Olimpia had long ago lost that excuse
and as a wise and venerable matron should show greater decorum. Her
outrageous behavior was bringing the pope, his family, and the entire
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