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Mistress of the Vatican
The Most Excellent Signora Donna Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphili,
Princess of San Martino, promises the Most Excellent
Signor Don Maffeo Barberini, son of the Most Excellent Signor
Don Taddeo Barberini of Most Happy Memory, and of the Most
Excellent Donna Anna Colonna, to give him as his legitimate
wife the Most Excellent Signorina Donna Olimpia Giustiniani
her granddaughter and daughter of the Most Excellent Signor
Andrea Giustiniani, and of the Most Excellent Signora Maria
Pamphili, niece of His Holiness, which granddaughter the
Signora Princess of San Martino has educated since the first
months after her birth, and loved as if she were her own
daughter . . .” 13
The dowry was 100,000 scudi given by the bride’s father, but the avvisi
noted that Olimpia had provided 70,000 of it herself.
On June 15, the sobbing child bride and the morose groom were married
by the pope himself in an elaborate ceremony in the Sistine Chapel,
attended by the entire Sacred College. Immediately after the ceremony, the
marriage feast was held at the Pamphili Palace. The bride’s grandmother
was absolutely delighted, the groom’s mother less so. Anna Colonna, who
had avoided for nearly a decade marrying a blue-blooded child of hers to a
parvenu Pamphili, looked on the marriage as a degradation and a necessary
evil. Having Olimpia in her family would be a daily martyrdom for
the haughty princess. We can imagine her sour-faced and purse-lipped,
picking at her food with a silver fork—not tin anymore—while a beaming
Olimpia dug into her meal with hearty gusto.
After the feast, the groom was supposed to take his bride to her new
home, the exquisite Palace of the Four Fountains. But Olimpiuccia
raced up to her old bedroom and locked the door. The wedding guests
could hear her loud sobs echoing through the walls. Then she threw
open the window and cried at the top of her lungs that she wanted to
become a nun, that she wanted to die a virgin and poor, and that she
had never agreed to marry for money. She shrieked that she knew what
her husband expected of her that night because a waiting woman had
told her, and she wanted no part of it.
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