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Mistress of the Vatican
Camillo until Olimpia had left Rome. On July 22, 1655, she rattled out
of the city gate incognito and traveled to her palace at San Martino. The
same day, the pope gave orders for witnesses against her to begin giving
testimony in a court of law.
The next day, Camillo raced back to the Vatican and asked for another
audience now that his mother had left town. When he saw Alexander,
Camillo told him that punishing Olimpia would scandalize the
heretics, who would laugh at proof that the former pope had given his
relatives money and power. Alexander replied that heretics would be
more scandalized to see wickedness left unpunished rather than justice
served, “and that it would be good if the relatives rendered an accounting
to the pope while waiting for him to render an accounting to God.” 5
On October 21 the pope learned that the despite his earlier instructions
to Olimpia to clear the construction material out of the Piazza
Navona, it was still littered with heaps of marble stones, planks of
wood, and barrels of lime. He sent her notice of a large fine along with
the threat of more fines if she did not comply.
But Olimpia had no place to put the building materials, as construction
was not moving forward; Borromini felt the foundations built by
the Rainaldis would not bear the weight he wanted to add. Stewing in
exile, Olimpia was hardly in a position to badger the builders to get
back to work. She gave the job to Camillo, along with the expense, as he
was now the male head of the Pamphili family. She was, after all, only a
woman.
Five months after the former queen of Rome trundled out in disgrace, a
new queen of Rome was arriving in triumph. The most successful conversion
of a heretic had taken place; on November 3, Queen Christina
of Sweden had publicly abjured her Lutheran faith and converted to
Catholicism in a ceremony held in Innsbruck. On the afternoon of December
23, she entered Rome through the Porta del Popolo in a carriage
designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The pope had restored the gate in
honor of the occasion with an inscription that read to commemorate a
happy and blessed arrival 1655.
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