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Mistress of the Vatican
and incomes, as was his due as the cardinal nephew’s brother, Mascambruno
angrily rebuffed him. The subdatary sold these positions and
was certainly not about to give them away.
To get Tiberio Astalli off his back, Mascambruno complained to the
pope that the marquess was importuning him almost daily and should
perhaps be banished to his estates in the country. Innocent angrily
called in Cardinal Astalli-Pamphili and told him to make sure his brother
did not bother Mascambruno anymore, or the whole family would be
exiled. The cardinal nephew, knowing Mascambruno’s hands were very
unclean, conducted a little investigation of his own, found something
heinous, and spread the word.
Monsignor Chigi had been in his position as secretary of state for less
than three weeks when an angry Jesuit stormed into his office. Father
Luigi Brandano, the assistant to the Holy See from Portugal, had heard
that the pope had signed a scandalous indulgence for the Portuguese
count of Villafranca. The count had been married in a church ceremony
by a village priest, which would have been no sin in itself except that the
count was already married to a richly dowered lady, and his second
bride was a teenaged boy, dressed up like a woman, with whom he fully
consummated the marriage that night. When word got out, the Spanish
Inquisition threw the groom, the “bride,” and the priest into a dungeon.
The penalty for sodomy was usually burning at the stake. But the
desperate count had paid forty thousand gold pieces for a papal order to
get him out of this hot water. Even now, Father Brandano insisted, a
bull signed by the pope was winging its way to Portugal ordering the
transfer of the trial from the jurisdiction of the unforgiving Inquisition
to that of the local bishop, a friend and relative of the sodomite count
who would, no doubt, immediately release the guilty trio and impose a
small fine as penance.
The virtuous Monsignor Chigi was so appalled at the Jesuit’s story
that he immediately arranged a papal audience for Father Brandano.
As the Jesuit was retelling the tale, the Portuguese monsignor Mendoza
came flapping into the audience chamber and angrily spewed out the
same story. The furious pope denied ever having signed a bull that, in
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