for the papal Treasury) under Pope Paul V.

Along with this eminence, he was also a notoriously difficult character with quite a checkered private life. In 1570, he was imprisoned for an unknown crime. In 1582, he was stabbed in the face in a street fight, leaving him with a diagonal scar on the left cheek and a blind left eye. In 1584, he was jailed for the serious crime of bearing arms in public. Whilst he was a staunch prosecutor of sodomites, in 1595, he was himself