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Eleanor Herman
lived into their seventies, and its records. Today Viterbo is a bustling
modern city operating in beautifully preserved thirteenth-century
buildings.
Olimpia’s masterpiece, the Piazza Navona palace, has been the home
of the Brazilian Embassy since 1920. The façade has recently undergone
a thorough cleaning and restoration to bring it back to the palegray
shade she had painted it in the 1640s. The embassy staff is well
aware of Olimpia’s fascinating history and is proud to have offices in
her former home. The ballroom where she threw magnificent parties
still echoes with the clink of champagne glasses whenever the ambassador
holds a reception. Her music room, where she held her lascivious
comedies, Jesuit orations, and operas, is still used for embassy concerts.
The town of San Martino sits almost unchanged from Olimpia’s
time. Many of the current 2,500 residents are direct descendants of the
dowerless girls Olimpia brought in. Her palace houses the local tourism
board and cultural exhibits and is used as a conference center.
The Pamphili villa of Bel Respiro, with its strange glued-together
statues and fabulous sunken gardens, was sold in 1985 to the government
of Italy. Currently being restored, it will be used as a venue for the
prime minister’s social functions.
The Il Barco villa outside Viterbo, built by Olimpia’s brother, Andrea,
is sliding into a state of poetic decrepitude. Many of the plaster
ceilings have fallen, and many of the frescoes are flaking and bubbling
with water damage. Recently the Italian government decided to restore
the villa to its former glory and fixed the roof before it ran out of funds.
The little church behind the villa has lost its roof entirely. The chestnut
trees on which Olimpia hung roasted chestnuts for the pope’s delight
are long gone, replaced by gnarled olive trees and tangled waist-high
grass.
Innocent’s model prison, the Carceri Nuovi, is currently the anti-
Mafia headquarters of the Italian government, guarded by handsome
burly men wielding machine guns. The Quirinal Palace, where Innocent
died, was taken from the pope by the Italian government in
1870 and used as the royal residence of the king of Italy. It currently
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