[1] Apart from a two-year absence from his native city between 1658 and 1660, and his many preaching commitments in other Italian regions (he received invitations to deliver sermons in Rome, Palermo, Venice,[2] and even Malta), he spent most of his life in and around Naples.
He preached before Pope Clement X in November 1670, and in 1671 gave a sermon at the celebration of the canonisation of St. Francis Borgia in the Church of the Gesù in Rome.
[1][4] His copious production in Italian and Latin includes two collections of sacred and moral verse, Scintille poetiche (Poetic Sparks, 1674) and Suaviludia musarum ad Sebethi ripam (1690), as well as homilies, letters, and orations.
He is most effective in the descriptive bravura of brief vignettes, where esoteric subject, bizarre verbal juxtapositions and audaciously dramatic imagery produce an exciting vision of a brilliant, moving world impinging on the senses.
Despite his orthodoxy and piety, Lubrano was subject to criticism from within the Church itself by those who deplored the conceited and hyperbolic style of some religious writers and preachers of the day.