[1] He joined the Benedictine Order in 1599, taking the name of Agostino and entering the Milanese monastery of San Simpliciano.
He became a member of the Accademia degli Indomiti and befriended several Bolognese writers and artists, including Andrea Barbazza and Giovan Francesco Neri.
[2] In 1642 he published in Venice, under the pseudonym of Giovan Battista Mognalpina, the chivalric romance Il Celidoro, one of the most successful Italian novels of the 17th century.
[2] Lampugnani sent the manuscript to Aprosio, who included it in his collection as part of the library that he established in his native Ventimiglia.
[5] Lampugnani's lively satire La Carrozza da nolo (The Rented Carriage, 1648) marks the entrance of the word moda (fashion) into the Italian lexicon.