[3] Duranti was born in Arezzo, on 17 September 1633, and ordained priest on 8 March 1664.
On 11 December 1690 he was appointed Archbishop of the Diocese of Skopje (ordained Bishop in 1691), position which had remained empty since the death of Pjetër Bogdani.
Simultaneously, during 7 June 1696 – 1706 and 1708–1713, he served as Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of İzmir.
[2] He died from a plague epidemic[4] together with circa 10,000 people in İzmir, most probably in 1712.
This article about a Roman Catholic archbishop from Italy is a stub.