Note 37 — BOOK XIII[1]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Donna Olimpia Pamfili (1594-1656), née Maldachini, sister-in-law of Innocent X., under whose pontificate she wielded great influence and amassed immense wealth. Alexander VII. ordered her to retire to Orvieto, there to await the result of an inquiry into the origin of her fortune (1655); but she died of the plague before the end of the inquiry.—B.