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The Papal Nuncio
Politics have no relation to morals.
—Niccolò Machiavelli
Naturally, Olimpia would be going with the new papal
nuncio to Naples. Despite her eight years of tutelage, Gianbattista
evidently did not feel confident enough to handle his
first diplomatic posting without her by his side telling him exactly what
to do. And she could hardly accompany the new papal nuncio without
dragging her husband and her two-year-old daughter along to give the
whole thing an air of respectability.
The Pamphilis would have been accompanied on the journey by
their famiglia, those tried and trusted servants who would keep an eagle
eye on their property in Naples to make sure it didn’t wander off, and
on their lives to make sure they weren’t snuffed out. Romans believed
that the Neapolitans were the most thieving, murderous wretches in the
world.
It wasn’t entirely the Neapolitans’ fault that so many of them were
thieving, murderous wretches. For some two thousand years Naples—
and the other half of the kingdom, the island of Sicily—had been ruled
by a succession of foreign invaders. The Greeks, Romans, Goths, Byzantines,
Normans, Germans, French, and Spanish had governed the