The Pincian Hill may not be one of the famous seven hills of ancient Rome, but today is the most pleasant one, as it hosts the finest park in the city. To imagine a person as rich and powerful as to have something like that as a week-end domain is enough to give us head-spins. This person was a man of the Church, the cardinal Scipione Borghese, and we should add that his art collection is just as impressive as his private domain. In fact, these speak of the high level of corruption in the Papal state, at the time when the Pope dealt not only with divine matters, but was in fact ruler of a part of what is today Italy. Scipione Borghese was the nephew of the Pope and promoted for this very reason, but proved very skilled in managing the finances of the Vatican as well as his own. He got to the point where he owned entire towns and vast lands around Rome, which brought him consistent rentals.