[1] He received his doctorate in utroque iure in both canon and civil law from the University of Bologna.
[1] He was successively appointed as Auditor of the Sacred Palace and on June 25, 1599, the Auditor of the Sacred Roman Rota in which he traveled with Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini to Florence to welcome Queen Marie de' Medici, the wife of King Henri IV of France.
[1][4][2][3] On November 5, 1612, he was consecrated bishop in the Sistine Chapel by Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese, Archpriest of the Arcibasilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, with Fabio Biondi, Titular Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Ulpiano Volpi, Archbishop of Chieti, serving as co-consecrators.
[1] He was created Cardinal Priest in the consistory of April 19, 1621, during the papacy of Pope Gregory XV and received the red hat and title of San Matteo in Merulana on May 17, 1621.
[1] On May 23, 1622, he was named by Pope Gregory XV as Archbishop (personal title) of Cesena.