[1] In the mid-1550s Fabri served as professor of theology at the Dominican studium at Santa Maria sopra Minerva, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum.
Montaigne had apologized for references to the pagan notion of "fortuna" as well as for writing favorably of Julian the Apostate and of heretical poets, and was released to follow his own conscience in making emendations to the text.
In May 1589 Fabri was removed from office as Master of the Order of Preachers by Pope Sixtus V and a successor was elected at the Chapter of 21 May.
The official reason was Fabri's support for Maria da Visitação (María Lobo de Meneses), a Portuguese Dominican nun who confessed to faking the stigmata in 1588.
He returned to Rome only after the death of Pope Sixtus V (1590) and lived the remaining years of his life at the convent of Santa Sabina where he was buried in 1594.