 <unk> disclosed the contents of his discussions with the king to a French agent and confessed his being employed by <unk> under threat of torture ; by this point Adiosi was no longer protector . According to an 6 April 1510 letter from the Venetian ambassador , the king dismissed Adiosi as protector and gave the post to Sisto della Rovere . There is no direct evidence that Sisto ever received the official title before he died in March 1517 . Until the death of Julius II , Bainbridge " filled the vacuum , real or in effect , in the protectorship of England " . 
