Scipione Lancelotti was born in Rome in 1527, the son of Orazio Lancellotti (personal physician of Pope Julius II and an abbreviator) and his wife Antonina Aragonia.
[1] There in 1563, the papal legates deputized him to Philip II of Spain to try to induce him to attend the Council along with Maximilian, King of the Romans and Albert V, Duke of Bavaria.
[1] Pope Gregory XIII then appointed him to accompany Cardinal Flavio Orsini, legate a latere before Charles IX of France.
[1] He then returned to Rome and quickly despatched to the Kingdom of Naples and Romagna on business of the Roman Rota.
[1] The pope then despatched him to solve a dispute between Bologna and Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara.