Subsequently he taught in various colleges of the Order, soon acquiring a great reputation not only for knowledge of general literature, but especially for proficiency in poetry, rhetoric and history.

A brilliant discourse on Pope Gregory XIII, whose financial generosity led to the renaming of the Roman College into 'Gregorian university', and a satire on the Cabalists of the day won for him admission into the Academy of the Arcadians.

He was in high favor with the exiled Stuarts, then residing in Rome, on account of an allegorical drama, La Morte di Nice, which he composed in honor of the titular King James III, and a history in Latin of the expedition into Scotland of Charles Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales, which some of his admirers look upon as his most finished production.

In them he pillories a class of contemporary writers who arrogated to themselves the literary censorship of their day, condemned the classification of the sciences and the methods of instruction then in vogue, and even the accepted principles of taste.

This work, written in Latin, was a continuation of the history of the Society of Jesus by Niccolò Orlandini, Francesco Sacchini and Joseph de Jouvancy, and embraced the period of Mutius Vitelleschi (1616–1633).