He is notorious for having expelled the Jews from Vicenza during his term as governor and for his antisemitic rants as president of the Council of Ten.
[2] In 1462, he was appointed extraordinary professor of civil law at Padua with a salary of 30 ducats a year.
[2] In 1492, he helped Bernardino da Feltre expel a Jewish moneylender from Padua and establish a Christian-owned bank there.
[1][2] In 1499–1500, he served for some months as head of the council, in which capacity Marino Sanudo records him ranting against the Jews in September 1500.
[3][6] In 1502, Elena died and Bernardo had a memorial stone erected for her in the Sanctuary of the Vision [it] in Camposampiero.
In September, Bernardo was among those elected to examine the legacy of the late doge Agostino Barbarigo.
[2] There are records of two surviving speeches attributed to Bernardo, the Oratio in doctoratu Albertini Baduarii and Oratio pro doctoratu Jacobi Molini in gymnasio patavino, delivered at the graduations of Albertino Badoer and Jacopo Molin at Padua.
[3] Bartolomeo Pagello addressed an elegy to him and he was one of the dedicatees of Alessandro Benedetti's Diaria de bello carolino.