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Mistress of the Vatican
come news that Olimpia had tried to enter the pope’s bedroom as Father
Oliva was anointing him with holy oil. Chigi was furious. Another
messenger raced up to him—this one from Cardinal Francesco Barberini—with
the urgent request that he return to the pope’s side immediately.
But Chigi refused to enter the pope’s chamber as long as Olimpia
was there. Only when he heard she had gone did he go back upstairs to
visit the pope. When Chigi learned that Olimpia and her daughters had
not left the palace but were stubbornly sitting in an antechamber, “he
could not hold back his exclamations against this annoying occurrence.”
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His anger was exacerbated when Signor Febei, the pope’s master of
ceremonies, told him that a delegation of honored persons had appeared
at the foot of the Quirinal with a message of reproach for Chigi, whom
they knew to be in charge of the deathbed. “The luster that the pope
had acquired in the last preparations for death was stained when women
came to recommend his soul,” they said. 17
Hearing that he was being blamed for Olimpia’s presence, Cardinal
Chigi burst into a tirade against her in front of Cardinal Antonio Barberini
and several other cardinals, who exchanged meaningful looks.
Now the Barberinis would never allow him to be elected the next pope.
“But Chigi,” wrote his biographer, “had no ambition, and therefore had
no fear.” 18
When Olimpia finally left the Quirinal that night, she was in quite a
quandary. She could hardly throw out all the priests and cardinals
standing around the pope’s bed and lock the doors behind them. She
was forced to go home and leave them all there with the remaining two
beautiful chests of gold under the bed. As she left the Quirinal, she was
overheard to sigh, “So soon, so soon.” 19 Believing that the pope would
die that very night and her house might be sacked and burned, she did
not return to the Piazza Navona but stayed with Olimpiuccia at the
Palace of the Four Fountains.
The cardinals were horrified that Olimpia had locked the pope up
alone at night, but since he hadn’t complained, they hadn’t been sure how
to proceed. But once the pope had been given last rites, the cardinals
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