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Eleanor Herman
three miles to her lovely palace and there ensconced herself to wait out
the epidemic.
On September 3, 1657, Olimpia’s nine-year-old grandson, Gianbattista
Pamphili, sent her a remarkably well-expressed letter written in
loopy schoolboy cursive.
The contagion in Viterbo is worrying everyone in the house, and
me particularly for the great love I have for Your Excellency
because I would want to see you far removed from such a grave
danger. Or I would willingly want to serve you, in person, and I
think I could do so profitably being now very practical regarding
matters of contagion, from which we have known how to resolutely
guard ourselves here. But since this is not permitted me, believe
me that prayers are not lacking, being made continually by my
sisters, for your health. May it please God to grant them, and
Your Excellency to bless us all. 15
On September 15, Camillo wrote, “Seeing that the contagion of Viterbo
is losing steam and virulence, this news fills my soul with joy in
every respect, but particularly on behalf of Your Excellency, and of my
aunts the nuns, to whom I ask Your Excellency to commend me. Here,
God be praised, we are completely free from any illness. In our house
we all enjoy perfect health.” 16
At some point between September 17 and 20, perhaps in the magnificent
frescoed rooms designed for her by Bernini, a flea jumped onto
Olimpia. Perhaps it sprang onto her black wool stocking and worked its
way up, past the leather garter buckled just above the knee, onto the
flesh of the thigh.
Three or four days after the flea bite, Olimpia shivered in the September
warmth. Shrugging it off, perhaps she reached for a shawl. But
then her body temperature rose rapidly to between 103 and 106 degrees.
Buboes appeared. Examining the sore black boils in her groin and armpits,
Olimpia could no longer deny that she had caught the plague.
She was tormented by unquenchable thirst, vomiting, diarrhea, headache,
and hallucinations. She probably knew that death normally occurred
within three to six days after the first symptoms. If she could
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