It appears, however, that the diaries of the masters of ceremony were not subjected to official censorship.

Caesar would have spared him no more than he did his father's favorite, Pedro Calderon Perotto, whom he stabbed, and Cervillon, whom he had killed--both of whom frequently performed important parts in the ceremonies in the Vatican.
Nor did he spare the private secretary, Francesco Troche, whom Alexander VI had often employed in diplomatic affairs.

Troche, according to a Venetian report a Spaniard, was, like Canale, a cultivated humanist, and like him, he was also on friendly terms with the house of Gonzaga.

There are still in existence letters of his to the Marchioness Gonzaga, in which he asks her to send him certain sonnets she had composed.

She likewise writes to him regarding family matters, and also asks him to find her an antique cupid in Rome.