Olimpia Maidalchini, the Mistress of the Vatican (her description in Eleanor Herman’s book of the same title), was born in a small Italian town outside of Rome in 1591, to a family of no wealth and little influence. The money her father did make, he intended to leave solely to his son, meaning that Olimpia …
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