In his youth, he composed three eclogues under the title Filareto all'aurea sua catena in the style of the Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazzaro.
[1] He was the patron of Giorgio Valla, who dedicated some translated ancient Greek mathematical texts to him in 1498.
[2] At the start of his public career, Marino Sanuto the Younger praised Giovanni as learned, humane and gracious.
His term was short, for he was recalled in February 1499 after Venice entered into an alliance with Louis XII of France.
On his return journey, he was fêted by the duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, who sought an alliance with Venice.
He secured grain supplies from the kingdom, since Venice's imports from the Balkans had been interrupted by its war with the Ottomans.
Immediately upon his arrival in Buda, he was ordered to go to Poland to congratulate the new King Alexander on his accession.
His main job was to justify Venice's new alliance with France, which put her at odds with Spain.
In June 1520, he was the Venetian representative at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, where King Francis I met with Henry VIII of England.
[4] Later that year, he held Francis I's daughter, Madeleine, at the baptismal font in the name of Venice.
In October 1526, he joined the zonta of the senate, where he successfully argued against breaking the treaty with the Empire to help the pope.
[1] In 1528, the Doge Andrea Gritti charged Badoer, Daniele Renier and Francesco Bragadin with reforming the Venetian statutes, first set down in the 13th century.