His exact activities in the early 1550s are not known, but he made the acquaintance of patrons in Rome and Monopoli, and through one of these patrons met his future wife, Giustina de Simeonibus, to whom he was married in 1553.
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He seems to lived the remainder of his life in Monopoli, a town near Bari on the heel of the Italian "boot", where he lived in relative affluence, since both the governor and bishop of Monopoli were his patrons, and his wife was from an aristocratic family.
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Around 1550 Berchem left Verona, and began seeking employment elsewhere in Italy.
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Some of his music written during this time and the early 1550s is dedicated to Alfonso II d'Este; he may have been looking for employment with the Este court in Ferrara, but no evidence of his employment there has turned up.
Berchem | Illinois Jacquet | Lloyd Jacquet | Russell Jacquet | Luc Jacquet | The painting, ''Travellers attacked by brigands'' by Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem | Jacquet–Langlands correspondence |