[1] He entered the Camaldolese Order when young, receiving the habit from Paolo Venerio, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Michael on Murano.

[2] He received the episcopal consecration in San Pietro di Castello on 9 April 1469 by the hands of the bishop of Torcello, Placido Pavanello.

[4] Pope Innocent VIII made him a cardinal priest in pectore in the consistory of 9 March 1489.

[1] Following the death of Pope Innocent VIII, Gherardi traveled to Rome, then in the midst of a sede vacante, arriving on 3 August 1492.

[1] At the insistence of the Venetian Council of Ten, the College of Cardinals published his creation as a cardinal and allowed him to participate in the papal conclave of 1492, where he cast the decisive vote in favor of Pope Alexander VI.