He received the tonsure on May 6, 1494 from Alessandro Carafa, Archbishop of Naples, in the Archbishop's Palace.[1] He then became a protonotary apostolic.[1] Pope Alexander VI made him a cardinal deacon in pectore in the consistory of May 1494.[1] His creation was published in the consistory of February 19, 1496 and he received the red hat and the deaconry of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.[1]