His grandfather Giuseppe Frari came from Treviso, Republic of Venice (now Veneto), to Šibenik, Dalmatia (now Croatia), where he became the chief municipal physician and the author of a work on rabies published in 1782 in Ancona: Riflessioni teorico-mediche sopra una grave malattia, l'istoria della quale farà vedere li sintomi che precedettero (...) (Ancona, Presso Pietro Ferri 1783).
In an article published in La Dalmazia Cattolica addressed directly to the Austrian Emperor, Frari provided substantial religious and civil arguments for preserving the diocese.
The document, written originally in Dalmatian Venetian (translation into English by Anton Krnić) is the property of Roksanda Smolčić from Zagreb; it was presumably also published in Il Dalmata in 1898: Sacred old man, tender like seraphim Husband, father, citizen, brother Upon your bier a kiss of esteem Upon your cold coffin tears and flower
You were gentle, good, you were faithful Like Gabriel the angel resembling I try to soothe, in this painful Part of earth, my cry and suffering
The tired eyes are forever closed But your spirit noble and devout Flied bright and pure to bosom of the Lord