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Eleanor Herman
Spanish community. Here the Spanish ambassador lived, and right
across from Olimpia’s home was the Church of Saint James, the Spanish
national church. Every June 28 the Spanish ambassador started out
from his home with a cavalcade of some three hundred carriages headed
for the Vatican. There he presented the pope with a beautiful white
horse, the chinea, the nominal rent that Spain paid for the kingdom of
Naples, which was, technically, the territory of the pope. It is likely that
the ambassador’s neighbors Pamphilio and Olimpia hitched up their
carriage and joined in the procession.
Every August 7, Rome’s Spaniards and their friends celebrated the
Feast of Our Lady in the Piazza Navona by giving dowries to young
women of Spanish descent who otherwise would not be able to marry.
In 1613, twenty-seven women processed through the piazza and entered
the Church of Saint James to receive dowries raised by the confraternity.
Olimpia, if she watched from her drawing room window, must have
been pleased.
Olimpia and Pamphilio were not the only Pamphili family members
living in the Piazza Navona house. Pamphilio’s younger brother Gianbattista
also lived there. Gianbattista had been blindsided by his brother’s
sudden decision to marry. The writer of an anonymous document
in the Pamphili family archives asked Gianbattista if he had been consulted
about the marriage. The monsignor replied that he had been
completely left out of the decision. But, he added, he had always known
that if and when Pamphilio married, it would be a “most noble wife,”
that he approved of the bride wholeheartedly and wanted his brother to
be happy. 6
As head of the family, Pamphilio had a higher rank than Gianbattista.
Pamphilio and Olimpia took the more important suite of rooms
facing the Piazza Navona and wrapping around the side of the house.
Gianbattista lived in the less honorable but more spacious suite of rooms
in the rear.
It is amusing that the relationship of Olimpia and her brother-in-law,
which would ultimately scandalize all Europe, got off on the wrong
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