Cavalcanti, while still living at Austin Friars, became at one stage in the early 1520s rather too intimately involved in the chaotic administration of its Prior Edmund Bellond, a crisis which also drew in Cromwell.87 More positively, Cavalcanti demonstrated how important the friary church was to the Italian community by donating an altarpiece by the Florentine artist Antonio Toto del Nunziata to its chapel of St John the Baptist, who happened to be patron saint of Florence.88
