During his life he was appreciated mainly for his epic poems La Cleopatra (1632) and Il Conquisto di Granata (1650).

The marriage had been sponsored by Louis XIV of France: it was reported that the French king might even provide a dowry for the occasion.

It deals with the theme of the dark cruel tyrant, (Oliver Cromwell) and the royalty prophanation (Charles I of England's martyrdom).

His published works include poetry, political writings, panegyrics, laudatory and love sonnets, and two epic poems, La Cleopatra (Venice: Sarzina, 1632) and Il Conquisto di Granata, which had five editions in the seventeenth century.

[2] According to some of his contemporary biographers, he also made any effort in order to publish an "Historia" about the period between the end of Castro's War and the Treaty of the Pyrenees.