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Mistress of the Vatican
“that this business had nothing to do with him, that he had never been
opposed to her return with a single word, and that the pope and his
sister-in-law should try with all sincerity to live tranquilly.” 6 And that
was all they were going to get out of Cardinal Chigi.
It was enough for the pope to move forward. Seventeenth-century
protocol required that Olimpia be rehabilitated in a ceremonial way, having
made peace with her former enemies before she was pardoned by the
pope. Her first step was to win over Sister Agatha, who had never forgiven
her for stealing Saint Francesca’s shoulder bone. Olimpia explained
her pilfering of the holy relic as an excess of religious zeal. She,
too, loved and venerated the saint and wanted the relic to restore the
luster to a neglected church in San Martino. What she had done might
have been wrong, indeed, but her motives had been pure—it was all for
the glory of God.
This was an explanation likely to win the nun’s approval. Olimpia
asked her forgiveness for the theft, which the pious, peacemaking nun
readily granted. Olimpia confessed the pain and humiliation of her exile—we
can imagine Sister Agatha in tears at this point—and her wish
to be reinstated in the bosom of her family. And the kindhearted nun
promised to help.
On March 11, 1653, Romans were flabbergasted by the sight of Olimpia
making a courtesy call on the princess of Rossano at her palace on
the Corso. Camillo was absent from Rome, but there, in front of the
palazzo, the heavily pregnant princess, eighty-three-year-old Sister Agatha,
and four-year-old Gianbattista Pamphili were lined up to welcome
Olimpia as if she were a queen. It must have been difficult for Olimpia
to extend her hand to her daughter-in-law, and even more difficult for
the princess to take that hand.
Cardinal Astalli-Pamphili then visited Olimpia at the Piazza Navona
palace for a public, if superficial, reconciliation. But the most important
ceremony occurred when Sister Agatha led Olimpia by the arm into the
Quirinal Palace for a private meeting with the pope. She remained
there until after midnight, the avvisi stated, which indicates that the
journalists had stationed themselves outside the palace to see what time
she reentered her carriage.
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