At the same time he taught Colonial Geography at the Università degli Studi "L'Orientale" and in Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples.
In 1910 he participated in the VII Italian Geographical Congress held in Palermo, where he was noted for his first studies on Apulia's karst morphology and underground hydrography.
He studied Apulia's hydrogeological phenomena and collected the results inside Le acque sotterranee in Puglia, published in 1913.
In the same year, he wrote the introduction on the karst phenomenon chapter for volume Duemila grotte published by Touring Club Italiano.
From 1932 he began to study the various forms of dwelling present in the Murgia region, noting the importance of the frequency of rainfall for human settlements.
He was also very sensitive to education issues and he gave a rich personal contribution with works such as Le carte geografiche e Le carte storiche in 1942 and books about geography teaching, such as Lezioni di geografia fisica, written in 1948 and Sommario di storia della geografia written in 1956.