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20<br />

Olimpia’s Triumphant<br />

Return<br />

q<br />

Where <strong>the</strong>re is hatred, let me sow love. Where<br />

<strong>the</strong>re is injury, pardon.<br />

—Saint Francis <strong>of</strong> Assisi<br />

The pope was severely depressed by <strong>the</strong> Mascambruno<br />

scandal and its wi<strong>the</strong>ring effect on <strong>the</strong> international reputation<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Catholic Church. For <strong>the</strong> first time since he was elected,<br />

<strong>the</strong> seventy-eight-year-old pontiff seemed old, fragile. He suffered<br />

from insomnia and an odd trembling in his right hand that made it difficult<br />

for him to celebrate Mass.<br />

Within days <strong>of</strong> Mascambruno’s execution, <strong>the</strong> pope razed <strong>the</strong> Tor di<br />

Nona prison, where his subdatary had been held and executed. Innocent<br />

had been thinking about building a modern prison for years, but<br />

now he felt compelled to begin <strong>the</strong> project to erase <strong>the</strong> revolting memories<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> papal forger.<br />

Many prisoners incarcerated temporarily for lesser <strong>of</strong>fenses—debts<br />

or drunken brawling, for instance—found that instead <strong>of</strong> a few months<br />

in jail, <strong>the</strong>y had, in effect, received a death sentence due to unhealthy<br />

prison conditions. After heavy rains, <strong>the</strong> Tiber could rise at a moment’s

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