Later naturalized by his father into becoming his legitimate heir, Franceschetto was infamous for his gambling addiction and wanton spending of the Papal treasury for various pleasures and scandals.

[1] He is otherwise noteworthy for his political marriage to Maddalena de Medici, and their offspring formed a dynastic lineage that persists in the nobility of Europe until today.

[3] Upon his father's ascension to the Papacy as Pope Innocent VIII, Franceschetto infamously engaged in rampant gambling and womanizing throughout Rome.

[1] Despite his infamy and the numerous scandals surrounding him, Franceschetto received from his father important positions in the Papal States: governor and Captain General of Rome (1488), the fiefs of Cerveteri and Anguillara (1490) and the title of Count of the Lateran Palace, among others.

He eventually could return to Rome thanks to the election of the more favourable Pope Julius II (1503), who gave him the title of Duke of Spoleto.