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Mistress of the Vatican
After all, she had never placed her father at the peak of greatness. But
she had labored for decades for Gianbattista, the only man she thought
she could trust. All of that work for what? To be cast off as a useless
woman, unwanted in the world of men’s affairs? To be locked up in the
prison she had so deftly evaded for forty-four years? Was this what it
had come to? The work of a lifetime had set her right back where she
started, a defenseless fifteen-year-old whose father was going to put her
away.
Sforza Maidalchini had not been able to force Olimpia into a convent,
but her father had not been pope. If the Vicar of Christ and monarch
of the Papal States decreed she had to go, then go she must. And
here was the greatest irony: the pope that she had created was the only
person in the world who was in a position to make her nightmare come
true. The anger drained out of her and was replaced by icy fear.
She quietly turned on her heel and mechanically sat in her sedan
chair, unnaturally calm. Silent, unmoving as a statue, she was carried
down to her carriage and climbed in for the ride to the Piazza Navona.
There would be no more temper tantrums. But Innocent, whose festering
irritation was finally uncorked after forty years, was not through.
He informed his staff that Olimpia was not to interfere any more in
Vatican affairs, nor was she to ever visit him again, or even wait outside
the door of his apartment.
Olimpia’s power vanished instantly. The day after that last horrible
altercation, Amayden reported, “The new Governor did not post the
arms of the signora above the door of his house as his predecessors had;
and all the prelates of the court have taken theirs down.” 22 The avvisi of
October 23, 1650, noted, “When she sent someone to call the subdatary
of the Vatican, who had been totally subordinate to her, he did not
come.” 23 The subdatary was none other than her close friend Francesco
Mascambruno, for whom she had obtained the position. Now, seeing
her disgrace, he immediately washed his hands of her.
The butler of the Quirinal Palace asked Olimpia to remove one of
her carriages from the stables there as Cardinal Astalli-Pamphili needed
the space for his own carriage. In response, Olimpia cleared all her carriages
out of the stables.
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