He wrote some satirical and anti-Austrian pamphlets, spreading them among his Istrian friends, especially criticizing Baron Friedrich von Grimschitz, then circular captain of Istria, based in Pisino.

In 1833 he started the year of practice to enter in the magistratura, following the cousnel of his friend, judge Canciani.

He had a secret meeting in his native Moncalvo with fellow irredendists, where it was decided to employ a firm yet legalitarian line of conduct.

He and the other deputies protested against the entry of their land into the German Confederation, opposing the Germanisation and Slavism.

[5] From 1843 and his association with Pietro Kandler in Trieste,[4] he also engaged in scientific work, which he did systematically until his death.