In Rome he attended literary clubs, striking up a friendship with Annibale Caro and Jacopo Sadoleto, as well as the large group of Umbrian scholars, including Trifone Benci, to whom he dedicated his famous capitolo della corte, composed after his break with Della Corgna and at the time when he entered service of his new patron Ferdinando de' Medici.

Caporali followed Ferdinando de' Medici in Florence and was afterwards in the service of cardinal Ottavio Acquaviva in Naples.

[1] He was a member of the Accademia degli Insensati and governor of Atri and Giulianova, two small towns in Abruzzo.

[2] Caporali died in 1601 in Castiglione del Lago, in the house of Ascanio Della Cornia, one of his patrons.

The poems, written in approximately 1580, were published for the first time in Parma in 1582, in the volume entitled Rime piacevoli.