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Mistress of the Vatican
would be called Alexander VII to honor the twelfth-century Alexander
III, who had come from Chigi’s hometown of Siena.
Four days after the election, on the night of April 11, a great storm
hammered Rome. Amidst the rain, hail, thunder, and lightning, a carriage
and four headless horses of fire were seen racing through the city.
When they arrived at Olimpia’s garden on the Tiber, they sprang into
an abyss and disappeared. Word got out that in this carriage was the
soul of Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphili.
While Rome’s nobility were calling on the new pontiff to congratulate
him, Olimpia was afraid to do so. Would he physically eject her from
the papal palace? He had always said he didn’t want women running
around the Vatican. She sent Camillo to render homage in the name of
the Pamphilis and sound out the pope’s response. Alexander accepted
Camillo’s wishes with dignity but not great warmth. This worried
Olimpia.
Next she sent her majordomo to present her congratulations. Alexander
merely told him to thank his mistress for her good wishes. And
that was it. Not satisfied, Olimpia sent Cardinal Azzolini to let the
pope know how delighted she was at his exaltation. Once more, the
pope replied with alarming coolness. Shortly thereafter, he granted the
vegetable vendors’ request to reopen the Piazza Navona for their
Wednesday market. Then he ordered Olimpia to clear out the construction
material for the Church of Saint Agnes, which was littering the
piazza.
Olimpia was, for once, uncertain what to do. How would she win over
this new pope, who held her very life in his hands? Projecting her own
tastes onto Alexander, she completely misjudged him. She sent her majordomo
to the papal palace with two enormous gold vases and the wish that
she could come and kiss his feet. But the Holy Father sent her majordomo
back with the vases and a message that she was to keep herself far removed
from the Vatican as it was not a place for women.
Pope Alexander immediately embarked on numerous acts of goodwill
and charity. He sold his silverware for six thousand scudi and gave the
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