A friend of Giovanni Francesco Loredan he was a member of the Accademia degli Incogniti.

He wrote madrigals on amorous themes, which tread a cautious path between Torquato Tasso and Giambattista Marino.

[3] His verse collection was published in 1649 with the title Vezzi d'Erato.

It includes an idyll, Il Narciso, already published in Venice in 1612.

Many of his lyrics are included in Benedetto Croce's influential anthology of Baroque poetry.