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Mistress of the Vatican
kneeling in prayer gave him great bodily suffering, but he showed no
fatigue of spirit.” 22
The first week of January 1655, Gigli gave a gripping account of the
pope’s final days. “The pope, against the opinions of the doctors and
everyone else, was still alive,” he wrote, “and was in such bad shape that
many had compassion for him. . . . The palace was so empty that there
wasn’t even a bowl or a spoon to give the pope a bit of soup, and it was
necessary to send someone to buy a bowl and spoon. And in bed the
pope was under a vile blanket like the kind used by a poor person in a
hospital. He had only the shirt on his back, all the other ones were gone.
And there was only one candlestick of brass, which soon disappeared,
and was replaced by one of wood.” 23
Before Innocent expired, he made two requests. He asked the cardinals
to choose a worthy successor—he highly recommended Cardinal
Chigi—and he begged his family to stop fighting. Between seven and
eight on the morning of Thursday, January 7, 1655, Pope Innocent X
died. Cardinal Chigi closed his eyes.
Cardinal Pallavicino wrote, “Innocent X finally died on January 7,
1655 with the assistance of Cardinal Chigi, having reigned ten years,
three months and 23 days, pretty much feared, not at all loved, not without
some glory and happiness in foreign affairs, but ingloriously and
miserably for the continuation of tragedies or comedies in his domestic
life.” 24
Gregorio Leti summed up Innocent as follows: “This was truly a
pope worthy of the best memory if his sister-in-law had not lost him his
reputation. . . . Instead, one was constrained to bury him in eternal
oblivion so as not to mention his sister-in-law.” 25 He wrote, “His suffering
Donna Olimpia to rule all, his exaltation and abasing of his adopted
nephew Astalli, his banishing and recalling Don Camillo his nephew,
his persecuting and reingratiating with the Barberinis, in a word, his
changing will and judgment every moment, and his inconstancy in everything,
would have embroiled any government whatsoever, and much
more the papal government, which is naturally full of confusion.” 26
Giacinto Gigli was disturbed by a pamphlet published shortly after
the pope’s death that denied a bit too vigorously that Innocent had died
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