[2] After the death of Manso (1645) he spent some time with the Prince of Avellino, and then withdrew to his native village, where he lived a simple literary life.

Battista published extensive collections of verse, the Latin Epigrammatum centuriae tres (1653), and the Italian Poesie meliche (in four parts, 1653–70), and Epicedi eroici (1667).

Girolamo Tiraboschi finds Battista 'a bad poet, who united in himself all the faults of his age,' but admits that his treatise on Poetry (1676) was influential.

According to Benedetto Croce Battista was, together with Giuseppe Artale, the founder of a school of poetry aiming at going further the baroque in its quest for novelty.

These latter posthumous publications, all printed in Venice, testify to his ambitions as a literary all-rounder, and to the importance attributed to his work throughout Italy.