 On October 5, 1596, he was appointed Governor of Fano.He was successively appointed as Auditor of the Sacred Palace and on June 25, 1599, the Auditor of the Sacred Roman Rota in which he traveled with Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini to Florence to welcome Queen Marie de' Medici, the wife of King Henri IV of France.On November 5, 1612, he was elected during the papacy Pope Paul V of as Titular Archbishop of "Damascus".