[2] His two extended sojourns in Rome refined his style; he joined the studio of Bernini as an assistant (1655–1661), although he appears to have been influenced by Algardi and his pupil Ercole Ferrata.

Under Bernini, Parodi learned to exploit the sensuous and tactile possibilities of the marble to enhance the emotional impact.

[4] In Venice, he completed the elaborate funeral Monument of Bishop Francesco Morosini (1678), in San Nicolò da Tolentino.

His sculptures commissioned by Eugenio Durazzo in 1679 during the renovation of the Palazzo Balbi Durazzo, Genoa, remain in situ (the present Palazzo Reale); they are a sentimental Christ at the Column for the chapel and a set of four mythological figures from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Venus, Clytie, Adonis, and Hyacinth) for the garden.

[6] In 1689, Parodi was in charge of the architectural, decorative and sculptural design of the Cappella della Pietà in the abbey church of Santa Giustina.