His reputation is founded on an accurate work entitled Biblioteca degli Autori Antichi Greci e Latini Volgarizzati (Library of Ancient Greek and Latin Authors), 5 vols., Venice, 1766-74.
[1] His minor publications, aside from some translations, the most notable of which is that of Cicero's Laelius de Amicitia, are mainly based on the rich collection of fifteenth-century books which they possessed.
His last work was the Dissertazione sopra il vaso antico, chiamato Cotone (Dissertation on the ancient vase called Cotone), a commentary on a passage of Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus published in the Nuova Raccolta d’opuscoli scientifici e filologici (XX-XII [1770], pp.1-21).
Argelati's Biblioteca degli Autori Antichi Greci e Latini Volgarizzati was published in 1766-1767 after the author's death, with additions by Angelo Teodoro Villa.
Besides the writings already mentioned, Paitoni realized an Italian translation of Diophantus' Arithmetica, published in Giovanni Francesco Crivelli's Elementi di fisica (Venice, 1744).