When his horse fell from fatigue, he bought another; were the owner unwilling to sell he took it by force; if resistance were made, he struck, and always with the point, never the hilt.

In most cases, being well known throughout the Papal States as a free-handed person, nobody tried to thwart him; some yielding through fear, others from motives of interest.

Impious, sacrilegious, and atheistical, he never entered a church except to profane its sanctity.
It was said of him that he had a morbid appetite for novelties in crime, and that there was no outrage he would not commit if he hoped by so doing to enjoy a new sensation.
At the age of about forty-five he had married a very rich woman, whose name is not mentioned by any chronicler.

She died, leaving him seven children--five boys and two girls.

He then married Lucrezia Petroni, a perfect beauty of the Roman type, except for the ivory pallor of her complexion.