[1] He studied at the universities of Pisa and Florence, and lived for a several years at the court of Duke Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga in Mantua.

[2] Back in Florence, Adimari joined the Accademia della Crusca, and worked on the academy's edition of Petrarch and the fourth edition of the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca.

[2] Adimari is best known for his five satires, composed between 1690 and 1700, which are violently anti-feminist (earlier, in 1685, he was accused of killing his wife).

His three volumes of sonnets (1671, 1693, and 1696) bear some debt to Marino's early lyric poetry, but shun excessive displays of metaphor and sensuality.

He published three comedies, two of which are reworkings of works by Jacinto de Herrera Sotomayor and Thomas Corneille.