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Mistress of the Vatican
merit, rather than those who were created for reasons of politics and
etiquette.
Urban VIII would have sent a special messenger to his nuncio in
Madrid bearing not only the exciting news of his creation but also the
robes of a cardinal. Gianbattista would wear a cardinal’s mourning
robes—in fuchsia, oddly enough—until he received his red hat from
the pope’s own hand in a special ceremony. Only after that could he
wear the traditional red robes and hat. After receiving his fuchsia robes,
Gianbattista did not leave Madrid immediately but spent another six
months or so tying up loose ends.
In his diary entry of July 6, 1630, Giacinto Gigli noted that Cardinal
Pamphili “made a pretty cavalcade” to officially enter Rome. 8 In
the Piazza del Popolo, in front of Rome’s ceremonial gate, hundreds
of carriages bearing Rome’s nobility, ambassadors, and cardinals lined
up to welcome the new prince of the church and escort him to the
Piazza Navona. We can assume that among them was an excited
Olimpia.
According to etiquette, Gianbattista then called on the cardinal
nephews Francesco and Antonio Barberini in the Vatican and generously
distributed gold coins to their servants as a sign of gratitude to
God for his good fortune. After dinner together, the Barberini brothers
took Gianbattista to a private audience with the pope, where he knelt
and kissed the pontifical foot. Urban took the red hat and put it on
Gianbattista’s head, proclaiming in Latin, “Esto Cardinalis.” The celebrated
red hat was called a galero; it was an enormous red velvet sombrero
laden with ropes of red cords and huge drapery tassels. The hat
was too big and too ridiculous to actually be worn other than in the
creation ceremony, but it would be carried on a silver pole in parades
and hung over the cardinal’s tomb.
After the private creation ceremony, Gianbattista hopped into his
carriage and made courtesy calls on all the pope’s relatives, male and
female. Then he returned to his house in the Piazza Navona, where he
was expected to remain inside until his public Vatican ceremony five
weeks later. Protocol dictated that he was not even to be seen at the
doors or windows. Yet that first night he was seen with a look of su-
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