A second Medici pope, Clement VII, reigned from 1523 to 1534. Filippo remained depositor general under Clement until the sack of Rome in 1527. He described his livelihood as “contingent on Clement's living breath,” and through Clement he came to control papal tax revenues in Spain. In Rome during a grain shortage in 1533, Filippo conspired to sell inferior grain at inflated prices. When Clement died the next year, mobs promptly ransacked Filippo's grain depots in Trastevere. Only now, after he had lost his Medici protector, did Filippo join the Florentine exiles, and his last four years as exile and prisoner have overshadowed all else.