Career
King Philip III of Spain named him president of the Council of the Indies in 1587. During his tenure in southern Italy, he ordered the reconstruction of the University of Royal Studies in Naples, and commissioned the reclamation of lands of the Volturno plain in the Terra di Lavoro. He was also the patron of writers such as Miguel Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Francisco de Quevedo, the Argensola brothers and others
He died in Madrid in 1622.
