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Eleanor Herman
friends, the wily Jesuits understood that she could jump back into power
at any time and corresponded cheerfully with her. In the summer of 1651,
the Jesuit Father Albergati invited her to a magnificent celebration honoring
Saint Ignatius of Loyola in the Roman College. Her reply was
bitter; they should invite the queen—the princess of Rossano—and not
the poor exile. The Jesuit replied cheerfully that the queen had also
been invited, along with all the nephews and nieces of His Holiness.
Olimpia loved Jesuit services and very much wanted to go. Yet she
couldn’t imagine herself sitting in the same church with the princess of
Rossano exulting in a more honorable chair. She decided to attend after
the evening bell when most people hastened home. “And I will go, too,”
she wrote, “but privately and after the Ave Maria.” 2 That way her enemies
could not gloat over her defeat.
After Olimpia’s fall, Cardinal Panciroli had hoped to be the sole advisor
to the pope, with Cardinal Astalli-Pamphili working as his assistant.
He envisioned that at a certain point years in the future when he died or
retired, he would leave his position to the new cardinal nephew. But
very soon after the young man’s promotion, Astalli-Pamphili’s manner
went from ingratiating to haughty. Panciroli realized that his protégé
was not a helpmeet but a rival. He had nourished a viper in the breast.
His sudden elevation had gone to Camillo Astalli-Pamphili’s head.
He was deified by courtiers and lauded by ambassadors; he received
magnificent gifts from kings. Why should a prelate as great as he sit
still and listen to the boring instructions of a sick old man? Cardinal
Panciroli complained bitterly to the pope about the rash, ungrateful Cardinal
Astalli-Pamphili, and Cardinal Astalli-Pamphili complained bitterly
to the pope about the jealous old Cardinal Panciroli.
The pope, for his part, had grown tired of Cardinal Panciroli and
preferred speaking to this young, charming man instead. Innocent began
to distance himself from his old friend. But he soon realized that
the third cardinal nephew was not all he thought he would be. “Cardinal
[Astalli] Pamphili,” wrote the French ambassador de Valençais, “was
adopted into the pope’s family, and it would have been good for him if
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