The prince-bishop of Trent, Johannes Hinderbach, had powerful friends in Rome, including the papal librarian Bartolomeo Sacchi, who blackened Giudici's name, accusing him of being in the pay of the Jews.
[2] Hinderbach himself had an account of the proceedings drawn up to vindicate his own actions, circulating it widely and so giving general credence to the notion that Simon of Trent had in fact been murdered by Jews.
[2] A committee of cardinals, chaired by Giovan Francesco Pavini, former professor of canon law at the University of Padua and an old friend of the bishop of Trent, exonerated Hinderbach and censured Giudici.
A papal bull was issued on 20 June 1478, accepting that the inquiries in Trent had been carried out in legal fashion but avoiding a finding of fact with regard to Simon's death.
He preached funeral sermons for the condottiero Roberto Malatesta in St Peter's Basilica in September and for Guglielmo Rocca, archbishop of Salerno, in Santa Maria del Popolo in November 1482.