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Mistress of the Vatican
hold out till the seventh or eighth day, she would have a good chance of
recovery.
Gripped by utter exhaustion, Olimpia took quickly to her bed. After
Innocent’s death, she had removed his papal throne from the audience
chamber she had built for him and placed her bed there, where the
throne had stood on its dais. It was the largest, most beautiful room in
the palace, with its ornate movable ceiling, windows on three sides, and
a gorgeous view of the medieval church, the town crouched at its stone
feet, and the blue hills in the distance.
Though doctors must have been hard to come by, evidently Olimpia
found one, according to a letter written by her relative Cardinal Gualterio.
The most important step to save her life was to drain the buboes.
But Olimpia’s buboes did not come to a head. “They could not pop the
nodes without great inconvenience, if they did not cut them out,” Gualterio
wrote. 17
None of Olimpia’s family or friends was with her during her illness.
It was reported that her servants, fearful of contagion, deserted her.
Gregorio Leti stated that there was no priest at hand to take her last
confession and ease her way to the next world with the comforting sacred
rites. This could very well have been true, considering that the San
Martino priests might have died or fled town.
For decades Olimpia had accumulated, acquired, and embezzled to
stanch her fear and keep herself safe. But now not all the money in the
world could help her, not all the gorgeous palaces could stop the infection,
not all the power she had ever wielded could prevent destruction
caused by a microbe lodged inside the stomach of a flea.
On September 26, 1657, the indomitable Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphili,
princess of San Martino and former mistress of the Vatican, died,
and quite possibly she died alone.
We can imagine her soul rising through the gold-embroidered velvet
hangings of her four-poster bed, up to the painted movable ceiling and
through the huge white dove on the papal crest of Innocent X. She rose
through the empty space above the ceiling, with its pulleys and levers,
and out through the roof. Above the palace, she could see the 250 houses
she had built for dowerless girls.
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