Although he was an archbishop he had only the first tonsure.
His life was wholly worldly.

It was even said that the King of Naples wanted him to marry one of his natural daughters and that if he did so he would relinquish the priesthood.

The Ferrarese ambassador called upon him March 17, 1493, in his house in Trastevere, by which was probably meant the Borgo.

The picture which Boccaccio on this occasion gave Duke Ercole of this young man of seventeen years is an important and significant portrait, and the first we have of him.
"I met Caesar yesterday in the house in Trastevere; he was just on his way to the chase, dressed in a costume altogether worldly; that is, in silk,--and armed.

He had only a little tonsure like a simple priest.