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Mistress of the Vatican
wrote to Cardinal Mazarin that Mascambruno “was a dangerous type
who was not thought of as very sincere.” 10
With Cecchini fired, Olimpia and Mascambruno could skim the
datary profits. They set to work to convince the pope that Cecchini was
not as honorable as he seemed. They were joined in their disparagement
by Cardinal Panciroli, who was violently jealous of the pope’s affection
for Cecchini. Panciroli told Innocent that Cecchini aspired to be
the next pope—the sooner the better—and was supported in this aim
by the grand duke of Tuscany. “Panzirole never missed an opportunity
to vomit at me all his poison,” Cecchini wrote in his autobiography. 11
The poison eventually had an effect. In a public audience on June 22,
1649, “the pope, saturated and stimulated by the slander of Donna
Olimpia and Panzirole, was ready to burst . . . and called me a rascal, a
rogue, and a simoniac.” 12 Innocent summoned the Swiss Guard and
told them that Cecchini was never to show his face to the pope again.
After that outburst, everyone thought Cecchini was finished at the
Vatican. Olimpia promised him she would convince the pope to send
him away honorably to a bishopric far from Vatican intrigues. But it is
likely that the pope was not so sure about the accusations after all; he
did not take away Cecchini’s titles and incomes and allowed him to remain
the datary in name. But Innocent no longer called for Cecchini to
bring him the daily financial reports; he called for Mascambruno. Each
day when Mascambruno returned from his papal audience, Cecchini,
vegetating in his offices, asked him if the pope had mentioned him, and
each day Mascambruno replied that he had not, but he certainly would
soon. The datary waited uneasily, and his sister-in-law Clemenzia stopped
prancing.
According to the Venetian ambassador, Giovanni Giustiniani, Olimpia
wrote up her own petitions and handed them to Mascambruno,
who passed them on to the pope. Seeing they were from his sister-inlaw,
Innocent didn’t bother to read them but signed them and handed
them back to Mascambruno.
Though the pope and Olimpia were unaware of it, Mascambruno
began writing up his own petitions and presenting them as Olimpia’s.
The pope immediately signed them and handed them back,
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