It is significant for having the only recorded case of an injury at a papal conclave, which was the result of a physical fight amongst the cardinals over who should be elected pope.

The 60 cardinal electors who met in the conclave to elect his successor were split among various factions roughly equally divided between loyalty to France and to Spain.

[1] In addition to the secular politics that influenced these papal elections, during this period they were marked by a strategy among elite families to acquire prestige and power.

These strategies often played out over several generations through patronage and the accumulation of wealth, and bestowing favours on family members once an individual's election to the papacy was expected.

A significant number of the electors loyal to Pietro Aldobrandini, the nephew of Pope Clement VIII, were willing to support Sauli.

The leaders of the competing factions met to select a compromise candidate and Camillo Borghese was unanimously elected pope the same day.