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Mistress of the Vatican
together with his red hat they had been able to also give him a brain. . . .
There were no stellar qualities in him, and certainly he had greater proclivities
for pastimes than for work.” 3
The new cardinal nephew was not only inexperienced in international
diplomacy, he was vain, shallow, and lazy. He loved the honor
and wealth of the job, the sumptuous palaces and gardens, and the gorgeous
carriages pulled by splendid horses wearing ostrich-feather hats.
He loved having the seat of honor at all the best parties. But he wasn’t
up to the work. Oddly, the first Cardinal Nephew, Camillo Pamphili
and the second Cardinal Nephew, Camillo Pamphili were quite similar—
all swashbuckling swagger, swirls of red robes, and little else.
In addition to Cardinal Astalli-Pamphili’s increasingly apparent uselessness,
Innocent was experiencing family problems. As long as Olimpia
had ruled in Rome, she had reined in her children and their families
to prevent them from badgering the pope. Now the Giustinianis, Ludovisis,
and Pamphilis hammered him incessantly with requests for
honors, titles, and incomes, sometimes pointing fingers at one another
as being unworthy of the same. Nor did he have the strength to ban
them from the papal palace. According to the Venetian ambassador, Innocent
“will never know how to free himself of this, by refusing to admit
his relatives who visit him so frequently.” 4 As always when under
stress, Innocent became ill. On July 20, he grew extremely feverish from
a bladder infection.
At least Olimpia’s family members could agree on one thing: they
hated Cardinal Astalli-Pamphili. Camillo in particular loathed him for
taking over his pleasure villa, Bel Respiro. Like Olimpia, her son saw
Cardinal Panciroli as the architect of Cardinal Astalli-Pamphili’s meteoric
rise and passionately despised him. Camillo soon wreaked his revenge.
When Cardinal Panciroli went to visit the recovering pope on
August 4, Camillo barred his path. It would only disturb Innocent to
see him, he said. It would not be good to stress His Holiness.
It was a deadly insult to the old cardinal, who had been instrumental
in Innocent’s election, had harmed his health shouldering the pope’s
workload, and had lost papal favor to the inept Cardinal Astalli-Pamphili.
Gigli reported that Panciroli “returned to his apartments with a
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