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Eleanor Herman
was cursed as having satisfied the greed of a very greedy and infamous
woman, and many other unworthy things.” 1
The heretic cousin of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden happened to
be in Rome and started collecting pasquinades to take back home. He
ripped them off the talking statues and let the poets of Rome know he
would pay gold for the most outrageous ones. Perhaps hearing of Queen
Christina’s secret conversion, he intended to show Lutherans how Catholics
revered their recently deceased pontiff. But as usual the worst ones
were reserved for Olimpia.
Pasquino roared:
Finished is the lust
Of this old bag
Of the Piazza Navona
Let’s call the hangman!
Finished is the lust
The pastor is dead
The cow remains with us
Let’s have a feast of her
Let’s take out her heart!
The pastor is dead. 2
Because of the vicious verses, “many were imprisoned who had written
such compositions, and four copyists were sent to the galleys, and
others led to the prisons of the Inquisition of the Holy Office.” 3
At eight o’clock on the evening of January 7, a sad torchlight procession
wound its way from the Quirinal Palace down to Saint Peter’s Basilica.
The pope’s body lay on a mattress covered in red silk, on a cart
pulled by black horses. Innocent’s master of ceremonies had rifled
through the palace and found some decent clothing that had not been
stolen. The corpse was dressed in red vestments and a red cap, white
leather gloves, red velvet shoes embroidered with gold crosses, and a
pallium, or white stole, that had rested overnight on the tomb of Saint
Peter. A silk funeral cloth was placed over the body for the journey,
leaving only the feet visible, and around these were wound a thin piece
of gauze.
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