[1] After 1591 he moved away from Reggio Emilia in search of fortune, going as far as Hungary, where he fought in the Long Turkish War in 1596.
[1] Back in Italy, he initially settled in Rome, where he was admitted a member of the Accademia degli Umoristi.
[2] Zinani was a close friend of Torquato Tasso, Giambattista Marino, and Angelo Grillo.
[1] Zinani's main work, the epic poem Eracleide, dealt with the struggles of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius against the Sasanian Empire.
He regularly attended her salon and had a poetry exchange with her that was later included in his Rime diverse (Venice: Evangelista Deuchino, 1627).