mistress of the vatican.pdf - End Time Deception

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After Olimpia
All our yesterdays have lighted fools
the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more.
—William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Camillo was summoned from Rome. According to some
reports, he found his mother naked on a stripped bed because
her servants, having come back to check on her, had robbed the
corpse and bed hangings.
Given the threat of contagion, the body had to be buried immediately.
Luckily, her tomb was already prepared in the Church of San
Martino, right next door to her palace. But there was the little matter of
a coffin. With so many recent deaths, all the coffins in San Martino,
and in Viterbo for that matter, were already six feet under—actually,
eight feet under in the case of plague victims. Camillo rooted around
the palace and in the basement found some packing crates that had
been used to bring furniture from Olimpia’s Piazza Navona palace out
to San Martino. These were hammered into a makeshift coffin. Washed
and dressed, Olimpia was interred in the shabby box, which many saw