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newly elected pontiff, called him to Rome to be made a cardinal
against his loud protests. He was a humble monk and wanted to remain
so.
Leti found the new cardinal entirely unsuited to his glorious station.
“Cardinal Onofrio, brother to Urban the Eighth, who was taken from a
cloister of Capucines, and introduc’d into the Affairs of the Court, could
never accustom himself to live in any other manner, but in that slovenly
way of the Capucines,” he wrote, “so that when he was to receive any
Embassadours, he committed the most ridiculous pieces of clownishness
imaginable.” When the imperial ambassador asked him to convince
the pope to assist Christian nations against the advancing Turks,
the good cardinal began talking about “the excellence of Turneps, and
the manner how the Capucines boil them in good fat broth; seeming to
lick his fingers almost at every syllable and to swallow a Turnep at every
word.” 7
On November 19, 1629, the papal nuncio to Madrid, Monsignor Gianbattista
Pamphili, was proclaimed a cardinal by Pope Urban VIII, along
with eight others. Gianbattista was not technically a cardinal until the
pope placed a red cap on his head in a special ceremony, but he would
now receive the remunerative revenues of a cardinal. These would enable
him to pay the exorbitant expenses associated with the creation
ceremonies when he returned to Rome.
The word cardinal was first used at the end of the fifth century and
comes from the Latin cardo, which means “hinge.” Scholars believe that
the hinge referred to the flexibility cardinals were expected to show in
leaving their local churches and swinging over to Rome to serve the
pope. Early cardinals were a kind of super-priest, with greater dignity
than regular priests, and over the centuries they steadily acquired more
honors, income, and power. A cardinal was “created,” and those cardinals
created by a particular pope were known as his “creatures,” a term
that sounds extremely odd to us today.
Putting together a list of new cardinals was one of the most difficult
tasks of a pope and sometimes took years of negotiations. It was not just
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