During assignments in the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul, Bosnia and North Africa, he researched the connections between people of Slavic origin and the Islamic world.
His work includes 1605 history of the city of Dubrovnik, published in Venice and entitled Comprehensive extract from Dubrovnik chronicles in four books (originally in Italian: Copioso ristretto de gli annali di Rausa, libri quattro).
In writing this chronicle, Lukarević relied on information and material he was finding in the Dubrovnik archive for the period from 1387 to his time, an old chronicles and works of Byzantine provenience, and other Western and Eastern writers and oral traditions.
Although he had little knowledge of chronography and geography, nevertheless, due to the abundance of material he used and numerous references from the works of today's unknown writers, Lukarević's chronicle is a significant contribution to the Dubrovnik history.
Among the records, the description of legal provisions and customs in Ragusa is particularly significant, containing valuable information about the political and administrative structure of the Republic.