His entrance into the Eternal City was honorable, and Clement granted him a special audience; but the ceremony of coronation had to be deferred because of the Cardinal's ill health.
Meanwhile his prospects seemed likely to improve.

Clement conferred on him a pension of one hundred ducats, and the Prince of Avellino, who had detained his mother's estate, compounded with him for a life-income of two hundred ducats.

This good fortune came in the spring of 1595.

But it came too late; for his death-illness was upon him.

On the first of April he had himself transported to the convent of S.Onofrio, which overlooks Rome from the Janiculan hill.