[7] On 5 November 1531, the Prior General of the Servites, Jerónimo de Lucca (1523-1535), detached the new monastery called "Il Mergollino" from the jurisdiction of the Order's Neapolitan province, and assigned Fr.

[2] At that time, he developed a friendship with Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the future Pope Paul III, who he probably already knew from Benevento, and who made Laurerio his theologian in sacris.

He was also given the powers of a legate a latere to visit and reform institutions in the Kingdom of Scotland, to prevent them from joining Henry VIII of England in breaking with Rome.

A serious issue immediately arose, over the question of compulsory payments for a benefice received; in the eyes of many, such "compositions" amounted to simony.

[17] In December 1538, while on an inspection tour of houses of his Order, he took part in the provincial Chapter of Lombardy, held at Scandia, north of Alessandria.

[19] He received the red hat on 22 December 1539, and the titular church of San Marcello al Corso on 28 January 1540.

[2] In early August 1540 he accompanied the pope to Lucca to meet Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor to discuss convening an ecumenical council in Vicenza.

[2] He also stopped in Urbino to begin the canonization process for the Servite Girolamo Ranuzzi, installing his relics in that city.

[2] On 27 August 1540 the pope assigned him and Cardinals Gasparo Contarini and Gian Pietro Carafa to a committee to study proposals to reform the Apostolic Penitentiary; this commission met sporadically.

[2] In spring 1541, the pope despatched Cardinal Laurerio to Modena as pontifical inquisitor delegate for the process against writer Giovanni Bertario.

[2] He was buried in his titular church of San Marcello al Corso, and his memorial inscription was placed by the Prior General of the Servites, Agostino Bonucci (1542–1553).