 There he participated in an informal academy founded by Isabella d' Este, Marchioness of Mantua, and overseen at times by Baldassare Castiglione and other famous humanist writers and philosophers.In an election overseen in 1513 by Sigismondo Gonzaga, Mantuan's old pupil and subsequently Cardinal Protector of the Carmelites, he was chosen as general of the whole order.Ill health bedeviled him through much of his life, however, and he died at Mantua early in 1516.